Top 326 Familiarity Quotes & Sayings

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

Familiarity breeds consent.

Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Familiarity breeds complacency.

Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

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

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Consistency breeds familiarity, familiarity breeds confidence, and confidence breeds sales.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Fabulous is familiarity.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I like having my familiarity and my specific coaches there telling me what I need to do.

It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

One result of moviemaking - and a side effect of moviegoing - is familiarity. If an actor is particularly good, familiarity opens into something deeper: care, concern, identification, empathy. Yet even those concepts can feel inadequate for some actors.

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

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

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Familiarity breeds contentment.

Familiarity breeds attempt.

Any familiarity with photographic history shows that manipulation is integral to photography.

Familiarity breeds democracry.

Familiarity can blind too.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Familiarity breeds content.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

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

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.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.