Brain Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

— Marco Bizzarri

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

— Ayn Rand

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not…

— Ai Weiwei

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

— Ayn Rand

“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

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

— Jen Knox

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

— Elliot Aronson

Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs…

— Gordon Allport

We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.

— Charles Colson

“It’s all well and good to have a mountain of psychological research detailing the different ways in which we routinely fail to think and…

— Joseph Heath

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr