Sana

“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself—will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows—some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history—But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, “This fact I can do without.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Moreover, dissonance-evoking situations have been found to evoke a general negative affect without also evoking increased self-directed negative affect (Elliot & Devine, 1994) or decreased state self-esteem (E. Harmon-Jones, 2000a).”
― Eddie Harmon-Jones, Cognitive Dissonance: Reexamining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“در تاريکی چشمانت را جستم
در تاریکی چشم هایت را یافتم
و شبم پر ستاره شد”
― احمد شاملو, شعرها ١٣٢٣ - ١٣٧٨: دفتر یکم