J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

All doors open to courtesy.

A book that is shut is but a block.

Film is a battleground.

The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

Humanity is now experiencing history's most difficult evolutionary transformation.

Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.

If you are looking for Christ in folks you will not be dwelling on their faults.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

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

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

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

A good garden may have some weeds.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

If you change the environment, you change the people.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

The Things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Everything we see is inside our own heads.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

I am deeply impressed with the designer of the universe; I am confident I couldnt have done anywhere near such a good job.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

Everyone is born a genius.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

Unfortunately it's also true to say that good management is a bit like oxygen - it's invisible and you don't notice its presence until it's gone, and then you're sorry.

What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.