Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke Copy Share Image
Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up. — Karl Hyde Copy Share Image
“rising familiarity with a text and fluency in reading it can create an illusion of mastery.” — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“[...] these questions gave way, in the course of time, to a different preoccupation, namely, a slow and growing awareness of familiarity… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
Aaron Sorkin uses a lot of the same people again and again - the people he likes. I think if there's ever… — Allison Janney Copy Share Image
Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“What happens if the writer is good is usually not that the work seems derivative or trivial but just the opposite: the… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography. — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.” — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Eleanor had known that for so long, she couldn’t even remember figuring it out.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before. — Nobuo Uematsu Copy Share Image
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