“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Rationalizing is not a tool for penetration of reality but a post-factum attempt to harmonize one's own wishes with existing reality.” — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization. — Arundhati Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
“I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram. "We would not be fit companions for human beings… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Attempting to justify a lie is something akin to poking a really big hornet’s nest with a really short stick. The distance… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its… — William Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Rationalization: This is a close cousin of intellectualization. It occurs when we are so afraid of feeling pain, disappointment, or guilt that… — Shirley Impellizzeri Copy Share Image
“Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“It wasn't uncommon to hear rationalizations of this sort--the longing to transform bad deeds into good ones. No one ever wanted to… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Often we fail to voice and act on our values because, before we even apply our best thinking to developing an action… — Mary C. Gentile Copy Share Image
“The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The… — Amitav Chowdhury Copy Share Image
Always the rationalization is the same-"Once this situation is remedied, then I will be happy." But it never works that way in… — Phillip Moffitt Copy Share Image
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. — James Ramsey Ullman Copy Share Image
“Your explanation is good, but your herring doesn't fry, as we say in Ramaldah," he exploded.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
“... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear… — Chris Heimerdinger Copy Share Image
“An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Rationalization for behavior is certainly an easy way out of a situation, but it enforces the weakness, making it weaker and weaker… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior,… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
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