I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
—Buckminster Fuller
If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do… how would I be? What would I do?
—Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
—Buckminster Fuller
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
—Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Manners
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.
—Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Education
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
—Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Genius, Intelligence
You can never change something by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
—Buckminster Fuller
Dare to be naive.
—Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Ignorance, Risk
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
—Buckminster Fuller
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
—Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Faith, Thinking
The minute you choose to do what you really want to do it’s a different kind of life.
—Buckminster Fuller
Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
—Buckminster Fuller
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