R. Buckminster Fuller

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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Don't fight forces, use them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Either war is obsolete, or men are.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

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

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

God is a verb, not a noun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 12 of 12 total Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart. R. Buckminster FullerDare to be naive. R. Buckminster FullerEverything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. R. Buckminster FullerGod is a verb. R. Buckminster FullerHumanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster FullerWhen I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. 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, Interview, April 30, 1978Either war is obsolete or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966 Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

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Thomas Fuller

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A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Thomas Fuller

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller

A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Thomas Fuller

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller

A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Thomas Fuller

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy.
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Biography
Type: Clergyman
Nationality: English
Born: June 19, 1608
Died: August 16, 1661

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Showing quotations 1 to 9 of 9 total All things are difficult before they are easy. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 He that plants trees loves others beside himself. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 Health is not valued till sickness comes. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 Money is the sinew of love as well as war. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732 With foxes we must play the fox. Dr. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Showing quotations 1 to 19 of 19 total A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas FullerAn ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Thomas FullerAnger is one of the sinners of the soul. Thomas FullerBe a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Thomas FullerBe not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. Thomas FullerEnquire not what boils in another's pot. Thomas FullerIf it were not for hope, the heart would break. Thomas FullerIf thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Thomas FullerIf we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Thomas FullerJudge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. Thomas FullerLearning makes a man fit company for himself. Thomas FullerMany would be cowards if they had courage enough. Thomas Fuller Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Thomas Fuller The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. Thomas FullerTrust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. Thomas Fuller Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Thomas Fuller, 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Showing quotations 1 to 19 of 19 total A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas FullerAn ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Thomas FullerAnger is one of the sinners of the soul. Thomas FullerBe a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Thomas FullerBe not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. Thomas FullerEnquire not what boils in another's pot. Thomas FullerIf it were not for hope, the heart would break. Thomas FullerIf thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Thomas FullerIf we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Thomas FullerJudge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. Thomas FullerLearning makes a man fit company for himself. Thomas FullerMany would be cowards if they had courage enough. Thomas Fuller Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Thomas Fuller The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. Thomas FullerTrust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. Thomas Fuller Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Thomas Fuller, 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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Showing quotations 1 to 19 of 19 total A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas FullerAn ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Thomas FullerAnger is one of the sinners of the soul. Thomas FullerBe a friend to thyself, and others will be so too. Thomas FullerBe not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise. Thomas FullerEnquire not what boils in another's pot. Thomas FullerIf it were not for hope, the heart would break. Thomas FullerIf thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Thomas FullerIf we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf. Thomas FullerJudge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections. Thomas FullerLearning makes a man fit company for himself. Thomas FullerMany would be cowards if they had courage enough. Thomas Fuller Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. Thomas Fuller Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Thomas Fuller The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. Thomas FullerTrust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee. Thomas Fuller Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof. Thomas Fuller, 'The Holy State and the Profane State,' 1642He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion. Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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A book that is shut is but a block.
Thomas Fuller

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Thomas Fuller

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.
Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller

A good friend is my nearest relation.
Thomas Fuller

A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller

A good horse should be seldom spurred.
Thomas Fuller

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
Thomas Fuller

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
Thomas Fuller

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
Thomas Fuller

A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.
Thomas Fuller

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas Fuller

A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Thomas Fuller

Abused patience turns to fury.
Thomas Fuller

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy.
Thomas Fuller

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Thomas Fuller

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Biography
Type: Clergyman
Nationality: English
Born: June 19, 1608
Died: August 16, 1661

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