R. Buckminster Fuller Giving Quotations

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

Only our minds are able to discover the generalized principles operating without exception in each and every special-experience case which if detected and mastered will give knowledgeable advantage in all instances.

Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be in total harmony.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.