Cognitive Dissonance And Religion Quotes

#1. Have a dialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they always start out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#2. Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.

Mooji

#3. Anger is one letter short of danger.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#4. Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.

Ovid

#5. I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!

Sam Levenson

#6. Systems thinking is "contextual," which is the opposite of analytical thinking. Analysis means taking something apart in order to understand it; systems thinking means putting it into the context of a larger whole.

Fritjof Capra

#7. When a man loves a woman, he'll spend his very last dime tryin' to hold on to what he needs.

Percy Sledge

#8. This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.

Jane Smiley

#9. I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

Carly Rae Jepsen

#10. The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.

FKA Twigs

#11. 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.

Mark Thomas

#12. For Satan, as for Marx, religion was an impediment to the grand design of transforming humanity from a collection of free-willed, autonomous individuals into a mass of self-corralling slaves who mistake security for liberty and try to keep the cognitive dissonance to a minimum in order to function.

Michael Walsh

#13. I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.

Jojo Moyes

#14. And I gave you some of those chocolate cupcakes with the squiggle of white frosting across the top. I buy those for your mother because she loved them and won't buy them for herself.

Marilynne Robinson

#15. One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

Calvin Trillin