Top 49 Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Tension is the great integrity.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Man knows so much and does so little.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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.