All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. R. Buckminster Fuller prisonermetaphor Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. R. Buckminster Fuller successfulwisdommen It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. R. Buckminster Fuller fatehumanityintegrity We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. R. Buckminster Fuller agedarkthinking . . . So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me - each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other. I vowed to do my own thinking, instead of trying to accommodate everyone else's opinion, credo's and theories. I vowed to apply my inventory of experiences to the solving of problems that affect everyone aboard planet Earth. R. Buckminster Fuller justicetwothinking Ignorance and greed are part of the evolutionary process, which is just to say that mistakes are part of learning. There is nothing bad about behaviors or perceptions that do not work; they simply have to be given up and replaced by behaviors or perceptions that do work. R. Buckminster Fuller greedignorancemistake The opposite of nature is impossible. R. Buckminster Fuller oppositesimpossible You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive. R. Buckminster Fuller making-moneywanttwo The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. R. Buckminster Fuller decisionchallengesmistake The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by. R. Buckminster Fuller wavewatermoving To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people R. Buckminster Fuller orderamericayears None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. R. Buckminster Fuller learningselfworld We must progress to the stage of doing all the right things for all the right reasons instead of doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller progressstagereason By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions. R. Buckminster Fuller errorstruthmistake You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. R. Buckminster Fuller methodobsoletefighting Television is the third parent. R. Buckminster Fuller thirdsparenttelevision There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible. R. Buckminster Fuller spontaneouschoiceschildren A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved. R. Buckminster Fuller politicswisdomway Geniuses are just people who had good mothers. R. Buckminster Fuller geniusmotherpeople I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. R. Buckminster Fuller life-lessonexperiencegenius
