Quotes about Familiarity

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[If you] give into your [emotional] illusions, and you will find yourself lost in a maze with no exits, nor entrances, b — A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace an — Jean Dubuffet
Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forg — Michael Bassey Johnson
I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly f — Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of hom — Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas
Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the famili — Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made. — John Godfrey Saxe
All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home. — Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even — Cindy Woodsmall, For Every Season
Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over — Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar t — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a prob — Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous. — Jocelyn Murray, The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising
Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder. — Tierney Gearon
...reflection can transform something familiar. — Diane L. Dunton, Living, Learning, Healing: Inspirational Stories from the Heart
In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong.That was my undoing. I had looked — Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much — Carl William Brown, Aforismi contro il potere e la stupidità
Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing. — Truth Devour, Wantin
Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of — Jude Morgan, The Taste of Sorrow
Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s wh — Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending