Avoiding Quote by Leon Festinger

Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.

— Georges Rodenbach

“Did you ever hear of cognitive dissonance?” she asked. “No.” “Basically, it’s a theory that people subconsciously reinterpret their motives and actions in a…

— Barbara A. Shapiro

“cognitive dissonance is”

— Rupert Sheldrake

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it…

— Chris Abani

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

— Anonymous

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

— William Carlos Williams

Of course I have used dissonance in my time, but there has been too much dissonance. Bach used dissonance as good salt for his…

— Sergei Prokofiev

The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing…

— Mira Sorvino

Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the…

— Igor Stravinsky

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

— Charles Ives

“The more effort we put into something, the more likely we are to value it. We are more likely to be consistent with our…

— Nir Eyal

“Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions…

— Ryan Holiday