Quotes By R. Buckminster Fuller

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Man knows so much and does so little.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

Tension is the great integrity.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

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.

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

Truth is a tendency.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

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

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.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

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

Love is metaphysical gravity.

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

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

God is a verb, not a noun.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

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