Quotes by 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. A. J. Jacobs cognitive-dissonancereligiousbelieve 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 atheismcognitive-dissonanceatheist 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 lensescognitive-dissonancewant The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. Christopher Hitchens atheismcognitive-dissonanceatheist 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 stresscognitive-dissonancebrain 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 psychologycognitive-dissonancetrying It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance. Lewis Black carcognitive-dissonancerunning Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance. Robert Thurman dissonancetolerancecognitive-dissonance
