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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• My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case, quite frankly, presumed familiarity has led to unfamiliarity, unfamiliarity has led to contempt, and contempt has led to profound ignorance.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Believe, Ignorance

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness

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• Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

  E. W. Howe

  Wonderful, Adaptation, Used

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

  Antoine Rivarol

  Roots, Hatred, Interest

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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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• Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Lions, Dangerous

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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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• 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 content.

  Anna Quindlen

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

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• Familiarity breeds complacency.

  Rick Warren

  Complacency

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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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• 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 is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

  Bill Vaughan

  Destructive

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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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• Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Men, Sacred Things

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Familiarity breeds contentment.

  George Ade

  Contentment

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

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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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• If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

  Oswald Chambers

  Religious, Shoes, Feet

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.359, Discovery House

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