Familiarity Quotes

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

Joseph Joubert

Can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Charles de Gaulle

Familiarities are the aphides that imperceptibly suck out the juices intended for the germ of love.

Walter Savage Landor

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table.

W.H. Auden

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

Jodi Picoult

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Hegel

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Samuel Johnson

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