Quotes by Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster on evil
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on dictators and dictatorship   

"Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on education   

"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."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on education
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"Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on faith
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"Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on god   

"Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on gold   

"Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on grave   

"Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on growth
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"The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on history and historians   

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on nature   

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster on leadership
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"You can never learn less, you can only learn more."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on learning
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"Don't fight forces, use them."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on architecture   

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster on management
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"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."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on manners   

"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on misfortunes   

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster on politics
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"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on pollution   

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on problems
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"A proverb is much matter distilled into few words."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on proverbs   

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on beauty
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"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on tradition   

"Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on world