“Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.” — Bryant McGill 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
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
“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
“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
If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances? — Charles Ives 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
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
Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually… — Max Heindel 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
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
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
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
“God lives in the peaks and valleys, the jarring transitions, not in the mundane, the safe, the smooth, or the repetitive. But… — Neil Abramson 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
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
“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
“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
“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 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 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
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
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
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty. — Anonymous 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“...it was like learning to like a new kind of music by listening to the notes that weren't played, finding warmth and… — Laura Elizabeth Woollett Copy Share Image
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be… — Nathaniel Branden 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
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