All objects lose by too familiar a view.
John Dryden
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
Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt.
Thomas Fuller
Make not thy friends too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.
Thomas Fuller
Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts.
Comtesse de Genlis, Stephanie-Felicite du Crest de
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
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