Dissonance Quotes
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Dissonance Quotes & Sayings
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Dissonance is the truth about harmony.
— Theodor W. Adorno
Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.
— Robert Thurman
Finding beauty in the dissonance
— Maynard James Keenan
It's a shame cars don't run on cognitive dissonance.
— Lewis Black
Wind passed again; the iris shuddered about the diamond chip.
— Samuel R. Delany
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
— William Carlos Williams
She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.
— Rachel Hauck
Women can only see beyond what their fragile heart wants to believe when they are in love.
— Shannon L. Alder
The nonviolent rhythms of the cross meet the melodies of this world with dissonance. I
— Preston Sprinkle
I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
— Eric Sevareid
Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.
— Wilford W. Andersen
Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.
— Bryant McGill
There's no question that the resolution of dissonance has always been the norm against which the occasional iconoclast has sought to make its mark
— Herbert Lindenberger
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
— T.H. White
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
Dissonance is a harmony.
— Mathias Aires
It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.
— William Zinsser
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
— Georges Rodenbach
My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.
— Stephen Paulus
So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
— Edith Wharton
Be grateful for anything that still cuts. Dissonance is a beauty that familiarity hasn't destroyed yet.
— Richard Powers
Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?
— George MacDonald
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
— William Faulkner
Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
— Charles Ives
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
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
I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.
— Hillary Clinton
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
