If you have to choose between someone who's a jerk in personal matters but perfectly correct in his opinions, and someone who's upstanding in personal matters but heretical in his opinions, choose the latter.
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Thanks to your contextualizing the consistent predictive power of “actions louder than words” I’ve benefitted from this tweet as a heuristic for the last two years. Can you conjure any other pieces of conventional wisdom that punch above their weight?
I've been meaning to write that essay for a while. Maybe now's the time.
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The tricky part may be finding other aphorisms that hit the bar of “you could bet on X forever and never lose.” Many aphorisms have a plausible-sounding opposite. If you can identify the special few w/ truthiness of actions>words, that would be applicable wisdom for many.
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And thanks for considering this! You’ve got my email if I could be useful for research or review.
This is a good starting point for contradictory aphorismshttps://www.quora.com/What-are-some-interesting-contradictory-aphorisms …
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