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One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

Gay Hendricks

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Brian Greene

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Robert C. Solomon

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Saskya Pandita

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt.

Jason Zebehazy

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Mark Twain

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

Intolerance is the Do Not Touch sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

Eric Hoffer

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

William Bernbach

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

Ouida

Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respect.

Nigerian Proverb

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Roy Hattersley

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

Gavin Newsom

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

George Sand

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Charles de Gaulle

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

William Hazlitt

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

Familiarity and satiety are twins.

Dorothee DeLuzy

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

Julia Ward Howe

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Daniel J. Boorstin