Quotes on Dissonance

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.

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.

Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.