A few from the file I keep:

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut

I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned. - Richard Feynman

Give a man a mask and he’ll show you his true face. - Oscar Wilde (paraphrased)

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. - C.S. Lewis

Magic is science you can’t explain. Science is magic you can. - My Daughter

You are under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago. - Alan Watts

What you do to achieve your goals must never become more important than the goals themselves. - Anonymous

The graveyard is full of irreplaceable people.

No one is really irreplaceable

I think it’s a good phrase? My mom said it a lot when I was young, but as I’ve grown it’s started to sound like passive aggressive negging?

You should always have friends smarter than you.

Which I always tried to do, but in practice I was seeking out to be tge dumbest person in any given room. Now as an adult I have severe anexity, I wonder if this was a factor.

Open to thoughts on this.

Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it

Better safe than sorry

Waste not, want not

Don’t put it down, put it away

Your brain is only as long as your pencil

The days are long but the years are short.

I can tell you one that is super applicable to the current era:

Garbage in, garbage out.

It’s a 1980s programmer’s adage in response to the belief by business owners that computers could solve their problems without data, or with limited data, or with inaccurate data.

Cut to the era of LLMs in which we’re asking glorified autocomplete to answer deep, philosophical or religious questions, or complicated political questions or complex logical dilemmas, when they were trained on Reddit and 4Chan.

There’s a 1970s corollary;

The computer is always right.

This is from the tendency of clerks and bureaucrats to, when confronted with conflicts between reality and the data fields in a computer database, favor what the magic box says.

Again, we’re seeing magical box thinking in the present day.

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“This too shall pass”

For the people suffering in the world

“The graveyard is filled with people who had the right of way”

*If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging"

If you find yourself in a bad place, don’t make it worse.

Unless they paying your bills, pay them bitches no mind. Rupaul Charles

A thing of beauty is a joy forever

moment of bliss can ruin your life. it sounds much better in original language but idea translates well.

“Know your audience”

You can never go home again.

The act of leaving means you and possibly your home and the people around it are now divergent. It loses the familiarity that made it comfortable.

Nobody gets out of life alive, life is a terminal condition.

Just setting expectations. Hopefully the realization that you only get one go at it, so try to live while you can.

Spare the rod, spoil the child.

I remember this because so many use it as a validation of punishment - the allusion to beating the child with a stick. What it means is to guide a child like a shepherd guides a flock using a crook or whatever. Teach and guide a child so they grow up well.

Everyone can be jealous of what you got, but nobody is jealous of how hou got it

Pretty self explanatory.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Just a tired old truism that young people just don’t appreciate what they have. Either health, time, looks, whatever. It’s true. They can’t. It’s like not appreciating breathing until you have a bad cold and realize the value of not having a plugged up nose.