R. Buckminster Fuller Inspirational Quotations

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

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.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

Dolphins may well be carrying information as well as functions critical to the regeneration of life upon our planet.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

His Unique Selling Position was to make the world work for 100% of humanity. .