J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.

Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him.

First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

Pride perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.

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

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

The more we learn the more we realize how little we know.

Eaten bread is forgotten.

Are you spontaneously enthusiastic about everyone having everything you can have?

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

When a man repeats a promise again and again, he means to fail you.

You can't learn less.

Family, to me, is most important, and I can't wait to have one of my own, but I am not going to rush into it. I don't want to get a divorce. I want to take my time, do it once and get it right.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.

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

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Better a tooth out than always aching.

If we design the environment properly It will permit both child and adult to develop safely And to behave logically.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Truth is the progressive diminution of residual error.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly - right now.

Perception is one millionth of one percent reality (truth in fact).

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.

It seems that truth is progressive approximation in which the relative fraction of our spontaneously tolerated residual error constantly diminishes.

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.