Change Quote by Mason Cooley

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

— Mason Cooley

We all cling to what's familiar.

— Anonymous

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

— Rene Magritte

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us,…

— Eric Metaxas

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

— Samuel Johnson

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

— Jane Hirshfield

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

— Andy Rooney

I think we're often guilty of gravitating towards the familiar. Even if we recognize that certain patterns are unsatisfying and destructive, there can still…

— Laura van den Berg

“We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .”

— Ted Dekker

“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

“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the familiar as…

— William James