Rationalization Quotes
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Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I didn't know that empty rationalization was part of your programming," said Ram. "We would not be fit companions for human beings without it. — Orson Scott Card
Our common humanity is neither a rationalization nor a deduction. It is as much a given as our nationality.
— Nicos Hadjicostis
How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to 'draw the line,' and we showed up with an eraser?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
— James Ramsey Ullman
Do I forget, or do I refuse to remember?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
He had a clear conscience. Never used it.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The author says we enlist reasons to convince others to join the direction of our instincts.
— Jonathan Haidt
Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!
— Ashim Shanker
Sometimes, we need little lies to save our pride. And sometimes we need big lies to save our souls.
— Bettie Sharpe
Logic is simply the language of convenient rationalization in a pseudo-science-loving civilization.
— Steven Erikson
Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.
— K.P. Yohannan
When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.
— Peter Boghossian
We should not delude ourselves into thinking that our historical narratives, as commonly constructed, are anything more than retrofits.
— Niall Ferguson
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... We [can't] escape the influence of sin in the world, but [do] we have to pay money to see and hear it firsthand?
— Chris Heimerdinger
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.
— Christopher Hitchens
Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
— Rebecca Goldstein
The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.
— Sidney Hook
We can hide a lot of stuff until God shows up, for when God shows up nothing is hidden, which includes both our embarrassment and His forgiveness.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.
— Henry V. O'Neil
The forms rationalization can take are limited only by human creativity, and we are a very creative species.
— Dan Gardner
While he loved liberty, he detested the crimes that had been committed in its name. Jon J. Ingalls
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Your explanation is good, but your herring doesn't fry, as we say in Ramaldah, he exploded.
— Andrew Ashling
Curiosity, rationalization, and laziness are no match against courage, self-control, and mental toughness.
— John Bytheway
Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
— William Faulkner
Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.
— Doug Cooper
We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law.
— John Milton
Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Thosewho repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement. — Quentin L. Cook
Rationalization is one of the real obstacles to obedience.
— Russell M. Nelson
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
— Albert Einstein
The argument that a particular project will be "self-financing" is usually the first refuge of politicians defending the indefensible.
— George F. Will
We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.
— John Duover
To use ones religion as a rationalization for lack of financial success demeans that faith.
— James Cook
Your capacity for self-justification and rationalization." "If it were an Olympic sport, I'd medal.
— Tiffany Reisz
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
The truth is, most people who do what you'd call 'wrong' do it for what they call 'right' reasons.
— Brandon Sanderson
Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.
— Saul Bellow
Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
A rationalization a day keeps your conscience at bay.
— Anthony O'Neill
My experience is that the absence of firm prior resolve results in regular rationalization.
— John Piper
She is driven to seek power. She finds some way to do that and then backfills a rationalization for it afterward.
— Neal Stephenson
Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.
— Nenia Campbell
