Cognitive dissonance Quote by Yuval Noah Harari Download Open image ““Cognitive dissonance is often considered a failure of the human psyche.”” — Yuval Noah Harari ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cognitive dissonance Failure Human psyche
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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When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
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“Our mind determines our actions. The more we fear failure, the greater the chances of failure. I realise my mistake. The repetitive statements about… — Parul Sheth Copy Share Image
“Change your beliefs about failure – consider it a source of feedback, not a testament to your lack of abilities.” — Martin Meadows Copy Share Image
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“I suspect you will find that a great many of your negative feelings are in fact based on such thinking errors.” — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
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“I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
It will take time for the idea of decentralized trust through computation to become a part of mainstream consciousness, and until then, the idea… — Andreas Antonopoulos 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 can't live… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I don’t trust the science behind the vegetarian movement because the believers have agendas beyond nutrition. Some vegetarians are in the lifestyle to protect… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're human beings,… — George f. Will Copy Share Image
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“Dallas Willard explains: The world has succeeded in opposing intelligence to goodness. . . . And today any attempt to combine spirituality or moral purity with great… — Jared C. Wilson Copy Share Image
“We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Human beings are its… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Bad behavior don't make us cool, it only exposes the fool we are.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
