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R. Buckminster Fuller quotes about thinking

American Inventor July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983

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I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely. R. Buckminster Fuller
I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem. R. Buckminster Fuller
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. R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In..."
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster Fuller
If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else..."
Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller
R. Buckminster Fuller quote: "People should think things out fresh and not just accept..."
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. R. Buckminster Fuller
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. R. Buckminster Fuller

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