Quotes About Rationalizing

So we invent reasons for the unreasonable. We are rationalists of the irrational. It

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

Procrastination is a way for us to be satisfied with second-rate results; we can always tell ourselves we'd have done a better job if only we had more time...If you're good at rationalizing, you can keep yourself feeling rather satisfied this way, but it's a cheap happy. You're whittling your expectations of yourself down lower and lower.

Well, dawn could be whenever you got up. The problem was that when you started rationalizing too many things, the significance of the original action was diminished.

With sin on the rampage and demonic powers controlling more and more of our culture, we need an enduement of divine power similar to what God gave the early church. Why don't we stop rationalizing and justifying the spiritual impotence all around us? Why not rather humble ourselves and seek God with all our heart for "something from heaven"?

Surprisingly, being smart can actually make bias worse. Let me give you a different intuitive frame: the smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.

It turns out the better you are with numbers, the better you are at spinning those numbers to conform to and support your beliefs.

Little white lies are told by humans all the time. Indeed, lying is often how we get through each day in a happy little bubble. We spend time and energy rationalizing our own behaviors, beliefs and decision-making processes.

That's it, keep rationalizing. Next thing, you'll be suspecting Captain Wesker of planning this whole thing.

Most of our lives in public are spent papering over, rationalizing, and otherwise denying our fear. We go to war because we're afraid, and we often go to spiritual events for the very same reason.

A metaphysics is a great help in rationalizing scruple-driven behavior.

The anti-Semite who avoids violence has no reservations about enabling, excusing, and rationalizing it. Israel,

I'm trying to make order out of chaos, trying to find some way of rationalising the horrific things that people do or the way the world is.

The new-era doctrine - that good stocks (or blue chips) were sound investments regardless of how high the price paid for them - was at the bottom only a means of rationalizing under the title of investment the well-nigh universal capitulation to the gambling fever/

Once a plan is made it must always be followed to the letter. It should only be changed if outside circumstances change. Man is a rationalizing animal and needs training in order to become a rational one.

Rationalizing is the bringing of ideals down to the level of one's conduct. Repentance is the bringing of one's conduct up to the level of his ideals.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

After all, had I been capable of rationalizing, I would have found that the thought of interdimensional travel and aliens was no more bizarre to me that Cox's murderous actions or having found out pornography king Jerry Ford held the office of President.

Distorted reasoning—which may take the form of rationalizing and justifying bizarre or unusual forms of behavior and relations—can be immature and can also produce core beliefs about life upon which even more distorted reasoning is based. For example, "he is only hitting me because he loves me.

Crean stepped around her desk and motioned toward the door. Now Nadine's skin prickled with anticipation. This is how it begins. Rationalizing. Telling herself that she had no choice, when deep down hunting killers hiding in plain sight was exactly what she'd always wanted to do—if she were only brave enough. But the prospect scared her, brushing so close to what she most feared.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

Daily living is replete with ideologies rationalizing the sacrifice of racially stigmatized, surplus populations.

We like to think we are rational beings living logical lives based upon objective facts. But the truth is, we are rationalizing beings who base most of our decisions on what we feel or believe and come up with the logic to justify our decisions afterwards. We don't really know as much as we think we do.

Man, who is free in his choice, acts from conceptions which he freely, though not always wisely, chooses. All conceivable states are awaiting our choice and occupancy, but no amount of rationalising will itself yield us the state of consciousness which is the only thing worth seeking.