Familiarity Quotes

210 Familiarity quotes by 185 unique authors

The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is… — Peter Mayle
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? — Richard Saul Wurman
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort, again and again,… — Dalai Lama
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. — Charles Lamb
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt. — Florence King
Familiarity breeds content. — Anna Quindlen
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. — John Stuart Mill
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of… — Albert Claude
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable. — Chanakya
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity. — David Whyte
Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you. — Thomas Pynchon
Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort,… — Dalai Lama
We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this… — Bell Hooks
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel… — George Bernard Shaw
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration. — Apuleius
The bitter hatreds that now poison Middle Eastern politics are rooted in the real or perceived wrong of the setting up of a Jewish State… — Richard Dawkins
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity… — Heber Doust Curtis
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea… — Alexander Agassiz
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,… — John von Neumann
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made… — Deborah Feldman
If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother to reject the… — Marilynne Robinson
Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous. — Jocelyn Murray
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net worth and familiarity… — Tim Dorsey

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