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“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
― Buckminster Fuller

“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“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. ”
― R. Buckminster Fuller

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble...”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
― Leonardo DaVinci

“The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“An average human looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. ”
― Leonardo DaVinci

“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“Water is the driving force in nature.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“God sells us all things at the price of labor.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks

“Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”
― Nikola Tesla

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”
― Nikola Tesla

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
― Nikola Tesla

“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla