What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Quote by R Buckminster Fuller

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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

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

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

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly...

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly...

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not...

Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not...

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

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

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes...

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes...

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere...

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere...

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while...

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while...

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional...

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional...

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become...

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become...

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch...

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch...

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought...

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought...

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

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

Tension is the great integrity.

Tension is the great integrity.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.