34 Quotes About Cognitive-dissonance

The question is not, do you have conflicts? The real question is, are you aware of your conflicts?

A mind that has no conflict, is not alive.

Anybody who says they don't have any conflict, is either lying or deluding themselves.

How to care for the injured body,the kind of body that can't holdthe content it is living?

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.

A while after I was old enough to understand this story, I pointed out how backwards it was to have fled to the nation that had driven them out of theirs, but they never copped to the irony of it. They needed to believe they'd done the right thing and that it made sense.

Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.

If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must after all be correct.

There is an animal in all of us, the sooner we recognize it, the sooner we can turn human.