The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller More Quotes From R. Buckminster Fuller We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. R. Buckminster Fuller earning-a-living drudgery notion We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking. R. Buckminster Fuller prisoner metaphor Don't attempt to reform man. An adequately organized environment will permit humanity's original, innate capabilities to become successful. R. Buckminster Fuller successful wisdom men It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate. R. Buckminster Fuller fate humanity integrity We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. R. Buckminster Fuller age dark thinking . . . 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 justice two thinking 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 greed ignorance mistake The opposite of nature is impossible. R. Buckminster Fuller opposites impossible You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive. R. Buckminster Fuller making-money want two The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems. R. Buckminster Fuller decision challenges mistake The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by. R. Buckminster Fuller wave water moving To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people R. Buckminster Fuller order america years None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. R. Buckminster Fuller learning self world 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 progress stage reason 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 errors truth mistake You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods. R. Buckminster Fuller method obsolete fighting Television is the third parent. R. Buckminster Fuller thirds parent television 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 spontaneous choices children A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved. R. Buckminster Fuller politics wisdom way Geniuses are just people who had good mothers. R. Buckminster Fuller genius mother people
