Leon Festinger quotes

“A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point.”
-- Leon Festinger

Source : Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter (2013). “When Prophecy Fails”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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“People most strenuously seek to evaluate performance by comparing themselves to others, not by using absolute standards.”
-- Leon Festinger

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“I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.”
-- Leon Festinger

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“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

Source : Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”

Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36

“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”

“The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.”

“My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.”

“I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”

“Chess is not only knowledge and logic”

“There is, then, a logical priority about the arrangements, and logic has nothing to do with time.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 74), 1968.