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Helping leaders find their way through complexity, ambiguity, paradox & doubt.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
Guido Scarabottolo
The New Yorker
“We take other men’s knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make it our own. We are in this very like him, who having need of fire, went to a neighbor’s house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any with him home… What good does it do us to have the stomach full of meat, if it do not digest, if it be not incorporated with us, if it does not nourish and support us?” — Michel de Montaigne, Of Pedantry¶
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“I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” — Michel de Montaigne
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