R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I am not young enough to know everything.

I'm a little smarter than most.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

I'm not the dumbest guy that ever lived.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

The wise speak only of what they know

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

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

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

I'm not very wise to many things.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

I'm no genius.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.

I am not that smart.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.