Wisdom Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there's a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab.”

“Some truths arrive slowly, like fog rolling in. You don’t see them all at once, but they change everything you thought was solid.”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.”

“Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest.”

“If you learn from many wise men who disagree one another,”

“Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination”