Familiar Quote by Jane Hirshfield

“Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne for the…

— Howard Moss

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil…

— T. D. Jakes

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

— Rene Magritte

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

— Roger Ebert

Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad…

— Greg Behrendt

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

— Seneca the Younger

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

— Mason Cooley

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people,…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of the primate…

— E. J. Gold

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity.…

— Henry Petroski

Familiarity breeds complacency.

— Rick Warren

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.

— Arthur Zajonc