Peter Drucker Quotes

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Eyes on the forest, not on the trees.

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

The way most people approach business - and the way they mostly teach in business school - involves the analytical mind. It divides it up and looks at parts in isolation.

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Our task is to look at the world, and see it whole.

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive, nothing can be understood.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience co-exist in a state of active interplay.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation.

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Reductionism is merciless.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.