Festinger Quotes

#1. Festinger argued that in reality we usually just find a way to ignore or discount dissonant information.

David Patrick Houghton

#2. I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent

Antonio Gramsci

#3. What better evidence could there be of a man's salvation than that he offers to others the grace he himself has received?

R.C. Sproul

#4. There was a crash like the falling parts of a dream fashioned out of warped glass, mirrors, and crystal prisms.

Ray Bradbury

#5. The 'in' campaign will attempt to scare people into believing that if the U.K. were to leave, investment and jobs would move abroad. They are as wrong about that now as they were when they warned that this would happen if we did not sign up to the Euro.

Nigel Lawson

#6. 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.

Leon Festinger

#7. With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

Neil LaBute

#8. A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.

Leon Festinger

#9. If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

Nikki Giovanni

#10. The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow.

Shashi Tharoor

#11. I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

Leon Festinger

#12. I climb into my characters' heads and live there while I write.

Catherine Cruzan

#13. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.

Thomas Hobbes

#14. Inevitably, our children come to see us as we are. Not as we wish we were, or even as we should be.

Michael Perry

#15. People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.

Leon Festinger