I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller giving people thinking A problem adequately stated is a problem solved theoretically and immediately, and therefore subsequently to be solved, realistically. R. Buckminster Fuller problem What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. R. Buckminster Fuller divorce lost-love education The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow. R. Buckminster Fuller important doe children Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices. R. Buckminster Fuller spectacular virtue vices We are operating at an overall mechanical efficiency of only four percent... Therefore, we find that if we increase the overall mechanical efficiency to only twelve percent we can take care of everybody. That three-fold increase in the overall efficiency can only be accomplished by redesign. R. Buckminster Fuller twelve care three You never change people by fighting their existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller fighting reality people "The further art advances the closer it approaches science," said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, "the further science advances the closer it approaches art." R. Buckminster Fuller approach art Don't fight forces, use them. R. Buckminster Fuller use-it-or-lose-it fighter fighting Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. R. Buckminster Fuller devil degrees play All human advances occur in the outlaw area. R. Buckminster Fuller outlaw areas humans It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons. R. Buckminster Fuller selfish class moving Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. R. Buckminster Fuller affected universe humans I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love. R. Buckminster Fuller three and-love lying Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked R. Buckminster Fuller alternatives intelligent stupid Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us. R. Buckminster Fuller spaceships coping earth 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 fate wisdom men With our minds alone we can discover those principles we need to employ to convert all humanity to success in a new, harmonious relationship with the universe. R. Buckminster Fuller principles humanity mind I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. R. Buckminster Fuller guitar strength leadership We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. R. Buckminster Fuller earning-a-living drudgery notion
