Quotes About Rationalization

If someone's beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs.

When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs.

...you'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.

The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.

Blaming the shootings on the doctors or lack of money doesn't wash, of course. It's a ridiculous rationalization, or just crazy. Holmes admits that Drs. Fenton and Feinstein offered to see him regardless of insurance and that he had plenty of money and additional support from his parents. Bob and Arlene had told him clearly that money was no problem when it came to getting psychiatric help.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Novelists and historians have known for centuries that people do not deploy the powerful human intellect to dispassionately analyze the world, but rather to rationalize how the facts conform to their emotionally derived preconceptions.

But then, we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. The money man tells himself that by getting rich he is actually enriching others, the artist tells himself that his creations are things of deathless beauty, the soldier tells himself he is on the side of the angels.

But then, we all tell ourselves stories about ourselves. The money man tells himself that by getting rich he is actually enriching others, the artist tells himself that his creations are things of deathless beauty, the soldier tells himself he is on the side of the angels. Me, I told myself that in court I could make things turn out right—that when I won, justice was served. You can get drunk on such thinking, and in Jacob's case I was.

Por mucho que se racionalicen las cosas, siempre es el cuerpo el que decide cuánto tardan en cicatrizar las heridas afectivas.

Until we are willing to accept the unpleasant truths of our existence, we rationalize or deny responsibility for our behavior.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

No True Scotsman' style of argument (also known to logicians as the 'ad hoc rescue' procedure).

...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

People argue themselves out of their pleasures

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.