R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Success

• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Future

• Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Motivational, Wisdom, Book

  Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth ch. 4 (1969)

• However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Country, Jobs

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Fate, Men

• We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, War, Support

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Pain, Educational

• Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Design, Tools

• There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Men, Design

• Ninety-nine percent of humanity does not know that we have the option to "make it" economically on this planet and in the Universe. We do.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Ninety Nine, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.19, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

• Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Successful, Men

• A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Wisdom, Politics, Way

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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