“If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.”
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
