Top Rationalization Quotes

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle...

Rationalization Definition

(n.) The act or process of rationalizing.

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

We have become used to obstructionist ideas. In the name of modernisation we are unconsciously hindering the natural flow of life. The fact that we are irritated, depressed, and distressed speaks volu...

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

There is no law against delaying action to weigh it in thought.

To incessantly blame others for my shortcomings is cowardice borne of fear, fed by fear, and haunted by fear. To be steadfastly accountable for my shortcomings is bravery borne of God, fed by God, and...

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our liv...

What makes humans special is our need to rationalize our actions.

To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that space I will hear the very things that I constantly use the clamor to drown out. And so...

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.

In a way, gluttony is an athletic feat, a stretching exercise.

If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a...

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.

Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually us...

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