Before we read the best R. Buckminster Fuller quotes, let’s also know a bit about him.
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Fuller, a believer of humanity, dedicated his life to empower, motivated and educate others through his work.
R. Buckminster Fuller held 28 patents under his name, authored 28 books, and received 47 honorary degrees. He is famous for coining or popularizing terms such as “Spaceship Earth”, “Dymaxion” house/car, ephemeralization (doing more with less), synergetic, and “tensegrity”.
In our endeavour to spread awareness and to empower our readers, we have compiled these powerful and inspirational Buckminster Fuller Quotes for all of you:
1. “If 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? ” – Buckminster Fuller
2. “There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” – Buckminster Fuller
3. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminister Fuller
4. “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.” – Buckminster Fuller Quotes
5. “You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.” – Buckminster Fuller
6. “The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it’s really a different kind of life.” – Buckminster Fuller
7. “Mistakes are great, the more I make the smarter I get.” – Buckminster Fuller
8. “Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.” –Buckminister Fuller
9. “I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.” – Buckminster Fuller
10. “It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a ‘higher standard of living than any have ever known.’ It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.” – Buckminister Fuller
11. “The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.” – Buckminister Fuller
12. “If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.” – Buckminister Fuller
13. “Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerating system. If we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.” – Buckminister Fuller
14. “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” – Buckminister Fuller
15. “To do more and more with less and less until eventually, you can do everything with nothing.” – Buckminister Fuller Quotes
16. “‘The further art advances the closer it approaches science,’ said Leonardo da Vinci, painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and inventor of the wheelbarrow, and other useful instruments from the speaking tube to a mechanically gyp-proof whore-house, ‘the further science advances the closer it approaches art.’” – Buckminister Fuller
17. “We were deliberately designed to learn only by trial and error. We’re brought up, unfortunately, to think that nobody should make mistakes. Most children get de-geniused by the love and fear of their parents – that they might make a mistake. But all my advances were made by mistakes. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” – Buckminister Fuller
18. “Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.” – Buckminister Fuller
19. “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” – Buckminister Fuller
21. “Real wealth is ideas plus energy.” – Buckminister Fuller
20. “It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?” – Buckminister Fuller
21. “When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” – Buckminister Fuller
22. “The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done – that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.” – Buckminister Fuller
23. “You never change people by fighting their existing reality.” – Buckminister Fuller
24. “You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.” – Buckminister Fuller
25. “War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is … not the way.” – Buckminister Fuller Quotes
26. “Don’t try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time.” – Buckminister Fuller
27. “Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” – Buckminister Fuller
28. “Don’t fight forces, use them.” – Buckminister Fuller
29. “Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.” – Buckminister Fuller
30. “The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.” – Buckminister Fuller
31. “Take the initiative. Go to work, and above all co-operate and don’t hold back on one another or try to gain at the expense of another. Any success in such lopsidedness will be increasingly short-lived. These are the synergetic rules that evolution is employing and trying to make clear to us. They are not man-made laws. They are the infinitely accommodative laws of the intellectual integrity governing the universe.” – Buckminister Fuller
32. “There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.” – Buckminister Fuller
33. “Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.” – Buckminister Fuller Quotes
34. “Sharing is having more.” – Buckminister Fuller
35. “You cannot question an assumption you do not know you have made.” –Buckminister Fuller
37. “The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve.” – Buckminister Fuller
38. “Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.” – Buckminister Fuller
39. “People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.” – Buckminister Fuller Quotes
40. “Man knows so much and does so little.” – Buckminster Fuller
41. “If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.” – Buckminister Fuller
42. “You can’t better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.” – Buckminister Fuller
43. “Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.” – Buckminister Fuller
44. “Integrity is the essence of everything successful.” – Buckminister Fuller
45. “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” – Buckminister Fuller
46. “Wealth is a measure of a person’s ability to survive so many days forward.” – Buckminister Fuller
47. “Everything we see is inside our own heads.” – Buckminster Fuller Quotes
48. “The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.” – Buckminister Fuller
49. “You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.” – Buckminister Fuller Quotes
50. “Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.” – Buckminster Fuller
Few more quotes by Buckminster Fuller Quotes on life and humanity
“The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.” – Buckminister Fuller
“Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly – right now.” – Buckminister Fuller
“Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.” – Buckminister Fuller
“Controlled time is our true wealth.” – Buckminister Fuller
Hope you liked these powerful quotes! Keep improving, Keep learning and keep moving forward!
