R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth

Every opinion which embodies somewhat of the portion of truth which the common opinion omits, ought to be considered precious, with whatever amount of error and confusion that truth may be blended.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Whatever the truth is, I don’t see how it will help me get food on the table.

In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

Seeker of truth follow no path all paths lead where truth is here.

There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.

I quite like mistakes. I think they're human.

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray.

He who does not lie does not know what truth is.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.

It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.

Truth is error burned up.

It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.

Mistakes don't scare me or bother me. If I feel like I made the same mistake twice, then I feel like I've really screwed up. But if I make one mistake and learn from it, hey, to me in the game of life it's just as important to know what doesn't work as what does. So I think mistakes are a good thing.

I am nothing, truth is everything.