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
We should feel dissonance; we are, after all, immortals trapped in mortal surroundings. We lack unity because long ago a gap fissured… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens 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
“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art knows no happier moment than the opportunity to show the symmetry of an extreme, during that moment of spheric harmony when… — Stefan Zweig 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
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
Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a… — Shimon Attie Copy Share Image
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
...one of hallmarks of a creative person is the ability to tolerate ambiguity, dissonance, inconsistency, things out of place. But one of… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit… — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Brenna was fixing some kind of a small computronic device when he found her in her quarters. “Judd,” she said, putting down… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician… — Chuck Israels 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
“It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
