There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything.

—Jenny Han in It’s Not Summer Without You

Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed?

—Dan Millman

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

—Floyd Dell

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

—Paul Fussell

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

—Anatole France