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.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

I have spent most of my life unlearning things that were proved not to be true

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

For the first time in history it is now possible to take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. Only ten years ago the 'more with less' technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

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

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.