Familiar Quote by Mark Twain

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

— Blaise Pascal

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

— William James

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

— Navid Negahban

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

— Charles Baudelaire

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

— Daniel Boone

“Let us say that science fiction is a kind of conceptual disorientation of the familiar.”

— Adam Roberts

If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Julia Ward Howe

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

— Stewart Udall

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve…

— William McDonough

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

— Archibald Rutledge