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Architecture
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Don't fight forces, use them.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Beauty
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There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Children
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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - which is the mostest? which is the leastest? They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Earth
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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Education
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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.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Evil
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Faith
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Fortune
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Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Funerals
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Genius
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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God
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God is a verb.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Here is God's purpose -- for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Gold
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Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Growth
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Help
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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History
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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Humanity
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Individuality
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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.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Integrity
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Leadership
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Learning
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You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Books by and about Richard Buckminster Fuller