“But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes.” — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body. — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a… — R.R. Hood Copy Share Image
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this… — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace? — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Did you ever hear of cognitive dissonance?” she asked. “No.” “Basically, it’s a theory that people subconsciously reinterpret their motives and actions… — Barbara A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
English audiences of working people are like an instrument that responds to the player. Thought ripples up and down them, and if… — Mary Heaton Vorse Copy Share Image
There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Fast-moving views are not likely to be strongly held views. Instead, they're much more likely to be about people mirroring back the… — Kristen Soltis Anderson Copy Share Image
Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
“As she breaks the silence, the upscale abused wife begins to feel affirmed and validated. The rationalizations she once relied on to… — Susan Weitzman Copy Share Image
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
“Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dissonance theory also exploded the self-flattering idea that we humans, being Homo sapiens, process information logically. On the contrary: If the new… — Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson Copy Share Image
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less… — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
The poetry that comes from the squaring off between and the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance. — Tool Copy Share Image
I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
“He had very few doubts, and when the facts contradicted his views on life, he shut his eyes in disapproval.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of… — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist […] I find that it… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
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