“Cognitive dissonance is often considered a failure of the human psyche.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Death is dissonance for the weak minded, but a constance for the stronger. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.” — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes.” — Antonio Machado 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 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
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
“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
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
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in… — Eric Sevareid 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
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
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
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
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I played to 20,000 people every day because people were walking on 5th Ave going to and from their jobs, and my… — Charlemagne Palestine Copy Share Image
I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background,… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Dissonance between family and school, therefore, is not only inevitable in a changing society; it also helps to make children moremalleable and… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's… — Chuck Klosterman 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
“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 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
“Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while simultaneously listening… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to… — Aleister Crowley 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
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release. — Quincy Jones 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
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