Dissonance Quotations

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [....] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance.

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 completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.

I suspect that a lot of the stress we see around us arises from the cognitive dissonance set up by one side of the brain hearing very plausible spin while the other side knows it just ain't so...

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.

What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

Dissonance is the truth about harmony.

Finding beauty in the dissonance

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...

It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.