Buckminster Fuller on Truth
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Buckminster Fuller, catalogued under truth, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Buckminster Fuller and filed under "truth" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Buckminster Fuller, entry #27019: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
Attributed to Buckminster Fuller, entry #81380: "The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles."
7 Quotes by Buckminster Fuller on Truth
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
"The wellspring of reality is the family of weightless generalized principles."
"The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth."
"The courage to cooperate or initiate are based entirely on the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth as the divine mind within you tells you the truth is. It really does require a courage and a self-disciplining to go along with that truth."
"Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths. Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship."
"The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations. The truth could not be more omni-important, although it is often manifestly operative only as a linear identification of a special-case experience on a specialized subject."
"Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch, smell, see, and hear. Since the initial publication of the chart of the electromagnetic spectrum, humans have learned that what they can touch, smell, see, and hear is less than one-millionth of reality. Ninety-nine percent of all that is going to affect our tomorrows is being developed by humans using instruments and working in ranges of reality that are nonhumanly sensible."