Quotes by Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Man knows so much and does so little.”

“Truth is a tendency.”

“My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.”

“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didnt come with it.”

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

“To expose a 4.2 trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.”

“Spaceship Earth: The problem for the passengers is that there is no manual to identify all the parts, and no instructions on how to operate the spaceship.”

“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.”

“If the success or failure of this Planet, and of Human Beings, depended on how I am and what I do; How would I be? What would I do?”

“War is obsolete”