435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief.... In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.