Quotes from R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.

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

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

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible.

Life is the spirit incarnate in time.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

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

Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - from killingry to livingry. Can we convince humanity in time?

All sports are time control demonstrations.

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.

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.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

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.

Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.

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