Logo
Quote by Sigmund Freud
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. – Sigmund Freud

Other quotes by Sigmund Freud

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of ones dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Dreams
Author
Sigmund Freud
Read Quote

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Experience
Author
Sigmund Freud
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Letters
category

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. – Author Unknown

Category:
Letters

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… – Elizabeth Hardwick

Category:
Letters

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived. – Knut Hamsun

Category:
Letters

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

Category:
Letters

Random Quotes

Man talks about everything, and he talks about everything as though the understanding of everything were all inside him. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Humankind

A friend who dies, its something of you who dies. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Death

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, Oh God, Ive got to do this today. – Richard Branson

Category:
Attitude

Years ago, fairy tales all began with “Once upon a time” — now we know they all begin with, “If I am elected.” – Carolyn Warner

Category:
Fairy Tales