The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
More Quotes from George Bernard Shaw:
You dont expect me to know what to say about a play when I dont know who the author is, do you ... If its by a good author, its a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.George Bernard Shaw
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
George Bernard Shaw
My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
George Bernard Shaw
Dying is a troublesome business there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard Shaw
What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids you even to learn.
George Bernard Shaw
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Superstitions QuotesThe first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
John Hersey
Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
Dario Argento