Dissonance Quotes
Dissonance Quote of the day
When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
When I had my first experiences of choral singing, the dissonance of those close harmonies was so exquisite that I would giggle or I would tear up, and I felt it in a physical way.
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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.
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.
If a person plays dissonance long enough, it will sound like consonance. It's a language that was alien and then it's less and less alien as it continues to live.
A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
True believers are continually shown by reality that their god doesn't exist, but have developed extensive coping mechanisms to deal with this cognitive dissonance.
A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.
If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.
I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.
I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.
To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.
Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance.
Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.
So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
