Cognitive Discomfort Quotes

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

It hurts my head, but it's fine because it's something I do every day. You can't avoid the gymnastics questions.

Most people stop learning out of fear. They are afraid they cannot learn.

It hurts to imagine stuff. It can give you a headache. Probably doesn't hurt physically, but it hurts mentally. But the more that you can do it, the more you're able to get out of it. Everybody has that capacity, but I don't think everyone develops it.

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.