It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not sufficient to exhibit the true; it is also necessary to expose and denounce the false. To admit that the false has any...
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H.l. Mencken
Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!
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Mehmet Murat Ildan
The war dragged on, as wars tend to do.
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Kelsey Brickl
I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was a feeling of weakness, a sort of powerlessness now, as though I were about to be ill but was never quite...
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Alfred Hayes
More Quotes By R. Buckminster Fuller
...primarily the individual is going to study at home.
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.
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. It's...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
