Familiarity Quotes

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.

~ Dean Koontz

Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a place to start their own family; the three kings from the East journeyed beneath the sentinel star to find the King of Kings; and the shepherds sought a child in a place most familiar to them: a manger.

~ Richard Paul Evans

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

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 if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar?

~ Cindy Woodsmall

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined. A medical professor describes the easy familiarity with which her digital-native resident students master medical electronic records—but is troubled by the fact that they enter data with their eyes focused on their digital devices, not on the patient in the room with them. Preoccupation with technology acts as a screen between the student and the patient’s real emotion, real fear, and real concern. It may also prevent these residents from noticing physical symptoms that the patient fails to mention. The easy busyness of medical record entry is a way to sidestep the more challenging dynamics of human connection. But experienced physicians know that interpersonal skills are essential to mastering the art and science of medical diagnosis.

~ Marian Deegan

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 problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

~ Jocelyn Murray

Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.

~ Tierney Gearon

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don't know so much about stupidity.

~ Carl William Brown

Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.

~ Truth Devour

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 rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

~ Jude Morgan

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 where we found the other person, and find them still.

~ Julian Barnes

With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone to become familiar.

~ Larry Watson

The familiar is by far the most beautiful.

~ Marty Rubin

When you meet familiarity which demeans true integrity, run away!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Familiarity increases carnality.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

~ William Bernbach

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

~ Ouida