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 FullerRead
His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of inclusivity and serving the needs of all people.
R. Buckminster Fuller advocates for a vision where the world operates effectively for everyone, suggesting that true progress lies not in benefiting only a select few but in creating systems that are advantageous to all of humanity. This holistic approach calls for innovative solutions that address the needs and aspirations of every individual, promoting a sense of shared responsibility for a sustainable future.
In practice
In a speech advocating for social equity, this quote can illustrate the importance of inclusive practices.
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.
Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.
Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)
When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity.
When a woman confuses what she is with what she wears, then something is wrong inside.
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