Dissonance famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
-- Charles Ives

#Men #Dissonance
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
-- Georges Rodenbach

#Mind #Body #Dissonance
Finding beauty in the dissonance
-- Maynard James Keenan

#Dissonance #Findings
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered...
-- Nathaniel Branden

#Truth #Facts #Dissonance
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
-- Quincy Jones

#Release #Dissonance #Tension
Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.
-- Robert Thurman

#Tolerance #Cognitive Dissonance #Dissonance
Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.
-- Wilford W. Andersen

#Criticism #Dissonance
Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.
-- William Carlos Williams

#Discovery #Dissonance

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
Digging up new information and speculating on it isn't your primary purpose when you're writing a biography intended for young readers, unless you ï¬nd compelling evidence that departs from the accepted wisdom. A biography for young people calls for the demanding art of distillation, the art of storytelling, and your responsibility is to stick as closely as possible to the documented record.
You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.
The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them,
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.
It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.
Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!
I think a Moon base is not necessary to get to Mars, but I think it will be helpful. It would give you a chance to develop and mature some systems; long duration, deep space stuff; and you're close enough to get some help, via radio from Earth.
We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.