Cognitive Quotes

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that matter are the things that happen in you.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

The depressed man lives in a depressed world.

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.

Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind.

Thoughts are mightier than strength of hand.

I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

We should pledge ourselves to the proposition that the irresponsible life is not worth living.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

Everybody has their reasons.

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

A slew of cognitive traits predisposes us to faith.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.