Quotes About Familiarity

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

Only what is seen, appreciated, and loved will be missed in its absence which makes humans creatures of habit

In the long run one gets used to anything.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

I also discovered that you can get used to a man , much like you do a household pet!

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people

A friend is a stranger that you have come to know better.

Habit has a kind of poetry.

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

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

Know it from root to fruit

Familiarity is the dagger thrust into the heart of fear.

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

Like all things new, it was awkward at first, until I got accustomed to it.

I remember your name perfectly, but I just can't think of your face.

They say familiarity breeds contempt. This may or may not be true, but it is clear that familiarity breeds comfort: do something scary often enough, and it not only ceases to be scary, it becomes automatic.

Most of us are as comfortable with our misbeliefs as we are with an old pair of house slippers: well-worn, familiar, and always waiting for us, despite the fact that they have out-lived their usefulness.

déjà vu all over again.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Same old slippers,Same old rice,Same old glimpse ofParadise.