Familiarity Quotes

• Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

  Brian Greene

  Science, Answers, Sometimes

  Brian Greene (2011). “The Elegant Universe”, p.365, Random House

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• One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Eye

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

  Roy Hattersley

  Acceptance, Evil, Suffering

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• Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

  E. W. Howe

  Wonderful, Adaptation, Used

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• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

  Ouida

  Kind, Magician, Ugliness

  Ouida (1890*). “Pascarel. Princess Napraxine”

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• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sex

  Notebook, 1894

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Roots, Hatred, Interest

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• Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Lions, Dangerous

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• Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

  James Hillman

  Safe, Losing, Habit

  James Hillman (2009). “We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Wedding, Monsters

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• The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Clever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1345, Delphi Classics

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• Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Perception, Daily Life, Edges

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• Familiarity breeds complacency.

  Rick Warren

  Complacency

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• Familiarity breeds content.

  Anna Quindlen

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Destructive

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• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  Idols, May, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Respect, Truth

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.

  James Boswell

  Men, Views, May

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Knowledge, Delight

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.932

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• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Familiarity breeds contentment.

  George Ade

  Contentment

  George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”

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• Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

  Scott Baio

  Magic, Farming, Wands

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Life, Beautiful

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1820). “Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems”, p.143

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• Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

  Sakya Pandita

  Men, Causes, Affection

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