“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Ludwig Wittgenstein” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
You have to know that you have to have familiarity with the artist that you want to be, but there's so much… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between fear and lack of familiarity. Anything one does for the first time can be daunting." ~Gwendolyn Cassidy~” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Within a week or two the calm returned between us, but something was missing. Dad could feel it, too. The first casualty… — Ryan Knighton Copy Share Image
“It is not merely the feeling that something is familiar. It is one step beyond that. It is something new, challenging, or… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object… — Bertold Brecht Copy Share Image
“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“empathize much more with those familiar to us, and this familiarity bias is demonstrated in something as basic as yawning.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand. — Jason Zebehazy Copy Share Image
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. — Boris Spassky Copy Share Image
I think using San Antonio as a model, when you have those core guys together year in and year out, I think… — David Lee Copy Share Image
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
“...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soulmate should be in Thailand — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
“We often find ourselves at ease with that with which we are most familiar, regardless of whether or not the trait serves… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with… — Peter Maxwell Davies Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He wanted to know her with such familiarity that he could curve his fingers around a wrist, an ankle, a knee and… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by. — Winifred Kirkland Copy Share Image
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and familiarity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
“The familiarity is balm for my soul and I take a moment to soak it in, hoping my emotions don’t choose this… — Linda Castillo Copy Share Image
![“[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love - and that it is a civil right.” quote by Jennifer Beals](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c5/jennifer-beals-10022_contact_speaking-about-same-sex-marriage-it-s-ab_1139976.jpg)
