Deception Quote by Karen Horney Download Open image “Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.” — Karen Horney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Deception Defined May Reasoning Self Self deception
Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. — James Harvey Robinson 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
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization. — Charles Colson 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
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead 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
Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The fact that compulsive drives for success will arise only in a competitive culture does not make them any less neurotic.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live. — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“For the analyst it is a source of never-ending astonishment how comparatively well a person can function with the core of himself not participating.” — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
“The tenacity with which the neurotic adheres to any attitude is a sure indication that the attitude fulfills functions which seem indispensable in the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Satan wants you to believe that you don't have a choice in the matter. You can't be happy until things go the way that… — Lindsey Rietzsch Copy Share Image
No-deal Brexit could be Boris Johnson's biggest deception yet - worse than the Boris bus or the lies that had him sacked as a… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe.… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no,… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Jack and Jill ran up the hill, both for a little fun. Jack's plan was deception while Jill sought affection. And Jack wouldn't quit… — Laurie Faria Stolarz Copy Share Image
People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the… — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
