Annoyance Quote by Jean Piaget

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Rene Magritte

Familiarity breeds complacency.

— Rick Warren

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

— Kenny Werner

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

— Julia Ward Howe

Familiarity breeds content.

— Anna Quindlen

What is familiar tends to become a value.

— Gordon W. Allport

“Preestablished schemata guide our attention to evaluate new information, but they can also guide our attention to selectively ignore information inconsistent with the schemata.”

— David DiSalvo

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

— Samuel Johnson

Familiarity breeds contentment.

— George Ade

“schema (singular form of schemata) is like a mental map of concepts that hangs together by association.”

— David DiSalvo

“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question…

— Bertold Brecht