Buckminster Fuller

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Buckminster Fuller

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

Buckminster Fuller

All human advances occur in the outlaw area.

Buckminster Fuller

All of humanity now has the option to ‘make it’ successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

Buckminster Fuller

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly – right now.

Buckminster Fuller

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

Buckminster Fuller

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

Buckminster Fuller

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

Buckminster Fuller

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Buckminster Fuller

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

Buckminster Fuller