"Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that……" — George Bernard Shaw
"Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession."
More Cannot Tell Quotes
- A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself. — Theodor Adorno
- I personally cannot tell you how many times we rescuers put our names on animals to come to us as… — Elayne Boosler
- I cannot tell you how much I owe to the solemn word of my good mother. — Charles Spurgeon
- Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience. In either case, it reacts… — Maxwell Maltz
- You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Mental pictures offer us an opportunity to practice new traits and attitudes, which otherwise we could not do. This is… — Maxwell Maltz
- He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior… — Mark Twain
- What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. — Bertrand Russell
- I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind… — Eckhart Tolle
- I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there… — Abraham Lincoln
- I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as it was said to me. — Walter Scott