R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

An unused life is an early death.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

I almost get annoyed at the fact that I'm not going to use all that I got.

To do nothing but grumble and not to act - that is throwing away one's life.

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.

Smart people understand that there is no such thing as paranoia. It is just another mask for ignorance.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.