R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#everyone #genius #living #process #them

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#butterfly #caterpillar #going #nothing #tells

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

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#designer #economist #emerging #evolutionary #inventor

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#better #does #else #faith #much

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

#bestow #careful #children #concern #doing

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

#allow #because #been #disperse #harvesting

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

#completely #could #difference #does #each

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

#common #earth #everybody #fate #going

Either war is obsolete, or men are. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#men #obsolete #war

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

#am #beautiful #beauty #finished #i