Henry Mintzberg Quotes

Some are smart but they are not wise

Intellect is not wisdom.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

The wisest of the wise may err.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

I'd like to be very wise.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.