Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.

Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality.

I am not optimistic or pessimistic. I feel that optimism and pessimism are very unbalanced. I am a very hard engineer. I am a mechanic. I am a sailor. I am an air pilot. I don't tell people I can get you across the ocean with my ship unless I know what I'm talking about.

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.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

If you ignorantly believe there's not enough life support available on planet Earth for all humanity, then survival only of the fittest seems self-flatteringly to warrant magna-selfishness. However, it is due only to humans' born state of ignorance and the 99.99-percent invisibility of technological capabilities that they do not recognize the vast abundance of resources available to support all humanity at an omni-high standard of living.

Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.

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

Wealth is a person's ability to survive a certain number of days forward.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Because the armored knight required many helping hands to mount him and maintain his horses and arms, he had to have their goodwill and support lest his helpers overwhelm him when dismounted and encased in his armor.

They experience new-born hope that humans have indeed a destiny of individual significance complementary to the integrity of other individuals.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.

Cooperen por encima de todo y no se impidan avanzar entre sí ni traten de ganar a costa de alguien más. Cualquier éxito disparejo, será pasajero.

Fuimos llamados para ser los arquitectos del futuro, no sus víctimas.

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

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.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

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

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

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.