Quotes About Cognitive Dissonance

#1. The greater our cognitive dissonance, the more creative our rationalizations, and the more important we will make the goals that we are pretending to accomplish.

Hugh Howey

#2. 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 ...

David Palmer

#3. I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

Charles Stross

#4. Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.

Bryant McGill

#5. 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

#6. I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

Hillary Clinton

#7. 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

#8. 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, and they want high services, low taxes, and an omnipresent, omniprominent welfare state.

George F. Will

#9. Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance.

Moby

#10. The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

Ellen Cushing

#11. 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.

A. J. Jacobs

#12. Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance.

Zack Love

#13. The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action.

Simon Mainwaring

#14. Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

Robert Thurman

#15. 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.

Chris Abani

#16. Creative ideas make people uncomfortable. It turns out that, at least subconsciously, we can have a hard time recognizing ideas as both new and useful at the same time. This cognitive dissonance between creativity and practicality may actually create a subtle bias against creative ideas.

David Burkus

#17. 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.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#18. A visit to Israel is always an experience in cognitive dissonance. The Israel you personally see and hear is so completely different from the Israel you read and hear about in the media.

Alan Dershowitz

#19. 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.

Barbara Kingsolver

#20. I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.

Paul Beatty

#21. Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?

Kevin Bleyer

#22. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?

Tweedy Peanut

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

Lewis Black

#24. America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

Jon Meacham

#25. I don't know if what I'm seeing are worms, or where they come from, or what they might be if they're not worms, or whether I want them to be worms or not, or what I have to believe about this woman if they aren't worms, or about the world or human bodies or this disease if they are.

Leslie Jamison

#26. One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

Iain M. Banks

#27. A bad song for a night such as this, mayhap, but her heart went its own way without much interest in what her head thought or wanted; always had.

Stephen King

#28. Women can only see beyond what their fragile heart wants to believe when they are in love.

Shannon L. Alder

#29. I continue to live inside a dichotomy: what was and what shall be. The pain in my skull is me trying to mesh the two.

Chila Woychik

#30. We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

William James

#31. Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip.

Samuel R. Delany

#32. It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

William Faulkner