A Quote by Archibald Rutledge

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

Archibald Rutledge

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Aware Becomes Breeds Contempt Expects Familiarity Inscrutable Learns More Nature Never Surprises

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Archibald Rutledge
American - Poet
October 23, 1883 - 1973

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

Martin Freeman

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Martin Freeman

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

Jon Crosby

Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally.

Jon Crosby

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

Stewart Udall

Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything.

Noel Coward

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I've found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don't have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.

Edward Norton

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

Gertrude Stein

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

George Santayana

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Aesop

Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They can’t understand why you have more than they do when you’re just a regular human being the same as them. Then they hate you for it. (Leta)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

William Shakespeare

An encouraged person will eventually get his drive from encouragement; he becomes more dependent. A person that never really receives encouragement learns to move out of spite; he becomes more independent.