24 Quotes By R. Buckminster Fuller


Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
R. Buckminster Fuller on alone

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller on art

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller on beauty

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller on experience

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

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller on future

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller on god

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller on great

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller on home

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.
R. Buckminster Fuller on knowledge

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

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller on love

Either war is obsolete, or men are.
R. Buckminster Fuller on men

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller on nature

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

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller on politics

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller on politics

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller on politics

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller on technology