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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Truth is a tendency.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Love is metaphysical gravity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead.
A grave is a plain suit;
while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Those who play with the devil's toys
will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man knows so much and does so little.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't fight forces, use them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I look for what needs to be done.
After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Everyone is born a genius,
but the process of living de-geniuses them.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
How often I found where I should be going
only by setting out for somewhere else.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you
it's going to be a butterfly.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Faith is much better than belief.
Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Either war is obsolete, or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The earth is like a spaceship
that didn't come with an operating manual.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth,
and that is that no instruction book came with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
God is a verb, not a noun.
- 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
We are not going to be able
to operate our Spaceship Earth
successfully nor for much longer
unless we see it as a whole spaceship
and our fate as common.
It has to be everybody or nobody.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
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.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
My ideas have undergone a process
of emergence by emergency.
When they are needed badly enough,
they are accepted.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
Tension is the great integrity.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor,
mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
A meowing cat can't catch mice.
- Yiddish Proverb
Do not use a hatchet to remove
a fly from your friend's forehead.
- Chinese Proverb
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
- Chinese Proverb
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
- African Proverb
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
Talk doesn't cook rice.
- Chinese Proverb
The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
- Yiddish Proverb
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
A bad peace is better than a good war.
- Yiddish Proverb
The show must go on.
- Proverb
Every goodbye is the birth of a memory.
- Dutch Proverb
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb
Envy breeds hate.
- Yiddish Proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Experience is the best teacher.
- Proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
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