Familiarity Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things”

“Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.”

“Familiarity breeds contempt.”

“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.”

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

“...reflection can transform something familiar.”

“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.”

“The familiar is by far the most beautiful.”

“Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.”