R. Buckminster Fuller

Man knows so much and does so little.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Tension is the great integrity.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.