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Cognitive Dissonance Quotes

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.

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.

Leon Festinger
Psychology, Trying, Cognitive Dissonance
Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

Robert Thurman
Tolerance, Cognitive Dissonance, Dissonance

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

Lewis Black
Running, Car, Cognitive Dissonance

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.

David Palmer
Stress, Brain, Cognitive Dissonance

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

Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, Atheism, Cognitive Dissonance
Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Atheist, Atheism, Cognitive Dissonance

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.

Chris Abani
Lenses, Want, Cognitive Dissonance
"The Rumpus Interview With Chris Abani". Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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.

A. J. Jacobs
Religious, Believe, Cognitive Dissonance
Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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