We also confuse trust with familiarity.
Robert C. Solomon
Its about familiarity, and I think the only reason theyre uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they havent come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that its about loveand that it is a civil right.
Jennifer Beals
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene
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
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
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
Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.
Saskya Pandita
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.
Robert C. Solomon
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
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
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
Julia Ward Howe