“A Song for September, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.”
Thomas William Parsons (1819–1892) American writer
1919
Variant: On a Bust of Dante, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted.”
As quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1941) by Alice Mary Smyth, p. vii
Context: The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
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American biographer 1885–1950Related quotes
“Conscious experience is at once the most familiar thing in the world and the most mysterious.”
David Chalmers book The Conscious Mind
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (1996)
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist
In this work are exhibited in a very high degree the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ~ Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Lives of the English Poets (1781) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lvpc10.txt <br class="br">Misattributed
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Source: My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
§ 129
Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Context: The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something — because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all. Unless that fact has at some time struck him. — And this means: we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.
Jacques Bertin (1918–2010) French geographer and cartographer
Source: Semiology of graphics (1967/83), p. 44
Max Velmans (1942) British psychologist
Susan Schneider and Max Velmans (2008). "Introduction". In: Max Velmans, Susan Schneider. The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Wiley.