435 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard – despite decreasing resources – cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn’t come with an operating manual.