shminux comments on Rationality Quotes March 2013 - Less Wrong
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Try it on your deep meta-truth as a self-consistency test
Yes, that's what I was suggesting. I presumed simplicio was pointing out that proverbs are not a good source of rationality advice because they are contradictory and I was trying to use a similar style of quote to continue making that point, but I suppose there is also a less charitable reading.