Familiarity Quotes
210 quotes by 185 authors
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Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man…
— Joseph Addison
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A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of…
— Robertson Davies
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
— Joseph Joubert
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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
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My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
— Chaka Khan
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Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so…
— Campbell Scott
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Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth;…
— Wendell Berry
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Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.
— Winifred Kirkland
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The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in preaching.…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.
— Charles de Gaulle
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Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
— Brian Greene
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
— William Hazlitt
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Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So…
— Steven Pinker
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
— George Sand
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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
— Boris Spassky
Who Wrote These Familiarity Quotes
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