The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees… — Elliot Aronson Copy Share Image
“There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I waited enough for someone, to accept them with all their broken promises and obvious lies…… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
“Sometimes man has a tendency to look at someone else’s situation in order to find some type of justification or validation with… — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image
“It always starts with one. That's how justification works. But once you justify something once, you can do it again. It becomes… — Batman, Injustice Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“Unless a man is already a believer and a Christian, his works have no value at all. They are foolish, idle, damnable… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to… — Andrew Cohen Copy Share Image
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our… — John Lynch Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ;… — William Blum Copy Share Image
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“The truth no matter how hard it is to bear, must be accepted and confronted head on because it is real. Businesses… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
