R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Blessed, Thinking, Technology

• You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Change, Thinking, Giving

• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

• If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, People, Giving

• You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, People, Giving

• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

• Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Unique, Giving, Perfect

• Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Giving, May

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

• Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Book, Reading

• ... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Giving, Reform

• Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable
  advantage in all instances.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Giving, Mind, Special

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.67, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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