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.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

Finding beauty in the dissonance.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

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

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.

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.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

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.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.

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.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

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.