The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The textbooks also fail to show how the continuous Indian wars have reverberated through our culture. Carleton Beals has written that "our… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
“No two generations in history have experienced such a highlighted cognitive dissonance, because never has change occurred at so rapid a pace.… — Michael Harris Copy Share Image
“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“The atypically depressed are more likely to be the walking wounded, people like me who are quite functional, whose lives proceed almost… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
“When a person believes one thing but chooses or is forced to advocate its opposite, the result is cognitive dissonance. Eventually, in… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“When there is inconsistency in belief and action (such as being violated by someone who is supposed to love you) our mind… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
“Women's ideas of themselves had changed, but the world's idea of women, somehow, had not. The cognitive dissonance was palpable at all… — Carina Chocano Copy Share Image
There's a momentum to being committed to a group that you think is good, and there's a certain amount of cognitive dissonance… — Sarah Edmondson Copy Share Image
Formal declarations of mistrust, pre-nups are emotionally unfortunate. They overtly plan for failure, and thus involve a jarring cognitive dissonance. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I continue to live inside a dichotomy: what was and what shall be. The pain in my skull is me trying to… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were… — William James Copy Share Image
“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for… — Christiane Sanderson Copy Share Image
I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side… — David Palmer Copy Share Image
“The drive to tune out opposing ideas can be explained by psychology's principles of selective exposure theory and confirmation bias, both being… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“So why are we unable to acknowledge the truth? Dr. Fung’s answer is simple: we doctors lie to ourselves. If type 2… — Jason Fung Copy Share Image
“This is our recurring temptation—to live within our camp’s caves, taking turns both as the shadow-puppeteers and the audience. We chant our… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
“Dallas Willard explains: The world has succeeded in opposing intelligence to goodness. . . . And today any attempt to combine spirituality or moral purity… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Consider your reaction the first time you sipped a beer or tried spicy food. Was it tasty? Unlikely. Our bodies are designed… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
“For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can't be… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
“Psychologists define cognitive dissonance as “The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs or attitudes; especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
“Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision: "Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are… — Peter cox Copy Share Image
“A pompous, arrogant, narcissistic intellectual came up to me at a conference and said rather boastfully. "You must feel really good about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
![“Dallas Willard explains: The world has succeeded in opposing intelligence to goodness. . . . And today any attempt to combine spirituality or moral purity with great intelligence causes widespread pangs of “cognitive dissonance.” [As with Jesus,] Mother Teresa . . . is thought of as . . . nice, of…” quote by Jared C. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/55b/jared-c-wilson-16055_cognitive-dissonance_dallas-willard-explains-the-world-has-su_387854.jpg)
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