The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble…

Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am…

— Immanuel Kant

“Self-justification is the enemy of repentance.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

— Carol Tavris

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

— Paul David Tripp

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

— Storm Jameson

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual…

— J. I. Packer

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

— Sivananda

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

— Wellington Mara

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying…

— Michael Foley

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of…

— Steven Pressfield

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 himself.

— Elliot Aronson

The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into…

— Paul Tournier

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

— Margaret Deland

Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn