Conscience Quote by Doug Cooper Download Open image ““Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.”” — Doug Cooper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscience Ethics Foreplay Identity Outside-in Rationalization
“if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.” — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.” — Scott Adams 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
“I really have nothing against rationality, or even doing what you think is best, or doing what is more likely to satisfy your desires.… — John R. Perry Copy Share Image
“An instinct is weakened when it rationalises itself: for by rationalising itself it weakens itself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“Guilty conscience confuse the humans from those that posses unscrupulous minds in action to control.” — Rolf Kobi Copy Share Image
“We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives.” — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“All that remains is to forge the #commitment. Regardless of how right everything feels, words never last.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Strangers don't see through the cracks as easily as people who know you.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Don't let yourself get bored. Exist to question; question your existence.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Nothing worse than someone who goes to the dance, is excited to dance, dances all night, and then complains all the next day about… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“True conversation is its own experience, and experience, not words, is the thing that brings people closer.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“There’s a drive in a lost soul—in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“What you see is what you get. The island is imaginative enough. Creativity don’t need to be wasted on naming things.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“Maybe winning isn’t everything. One just needs to hedge the bet and minimize the risk.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“I never get used to the faces--wide-eyed and full of possibility--staring bad at me.” — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image