Best Rationalize Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.”

God Truth Lies Justify Truthfulness Rationalize Distortions Adjust Justifications Modify Tampering

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Possibly the greatest failure is to be overrun by our failures, and yet somehow declare that the failures evidence the value of what we continue to fail at.”

Ignorance Stupidity Foolish Justify Fail Self Deception Failures Rationalize

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Philosophy Human Nature Logic Rational Denial Nonsense Rationalize Human Behaviour Making Sense Of The World Rationalise

Book:Cry Of The Wolf

Source: Cry Of The Wolf

“The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.”

Life Ignorance Living Deny Denial Live Justify Justification Ignore Rationalize

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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.”

“Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.”

Men Love Truth Women Responsibility Forgiveness Justify Apology Justification Partner Rationalize Apologies

Book:The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

Source: The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

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

Responsibility Failure Integrity Responsible Blame Justify Accountability Justification Excuses Fail Irresponsible Avoidance Avoid Rationalize Rationalization Accountable Blaming Blame Placing

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the time that it takes to rationalize why I should avoid doing something I could have done it three times over.”

Laziness Procrastination Justification Excuses Rationalize

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Denial is a state of mind with no legs. Therefore, while it works very hard to convince me that I’ve run far away from that which frightens me, it can’t take me anywhere except where I’m at.”

Fear Courage Determination Denial Justify Frightened Excuses Rationalize Flee

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it in indelible ink.”

Life Ignorance Excuse Deny Denial Permanent Justify Story Justification Ink Deceived Excuses Permanence Ignore Rationalize Rationalization Indelible Deceive Story Of Life Immovable

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The human brain can protect us from seeing and feeling what it believes may be too uncomfortable for us to tolerate. It can lead us to deny, defend, minimize, or rationalize away something that doesn’t fit our worldview.”

Denial Unbearable Worldview Rationalize Rationalization Minimization Denial Of Abuse Defenses Psychological Defenses

Book:The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

Source: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

“I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.”

Path Consequence Blame Justify Destination Justification Location Create Rationalize Result Rationalization Created Blaming Designed Projecting Pave Paved Authored Chart Charted

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief.”

Belief Beliefs Scrutiny Rationalize Note To Self Qualify Turn A Blind Eye Maintain A Belief Make Exceptions

Author:Laurie Buchanan, PhD

“You can rationalize anything, but that is not total honesty, only your version of it based on your upbringing and experiences outside of everyone else's reality.”

Self Serving Rationalize Justifications Rationalizing Twisted Honesty

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“If I pretend to do great things, the only thing that I’ve done greatly is to pretend.”

Deception Fake Great Justify Pretending Pretend Rationalize Greatly

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only few people enjoy life in better way rest of the made just to facilitate those few.”

Life Enjoy Luck Rationalize Fetal

Author:Kartik Mehta

“Any excuse that grants me permission to somehow compromise what I am capable of achieving is the ‘worst of me’ undermining the ‘best of me’ in a manner that will never be capable of ‘excusing me.”

Worst Justify Potential Best Excuses Rationalize Self Sabotage Undermine

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don’t bore me with the facts, because once I’m finally forced to face them I will find myself desperately wishing that I could be bored.”

Facts Reality Truth Ignorance Denial Bored Justify Rationalize

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

God Light Hope Dark Darkness Excuse Quitting Justify Justification Excuses Illumination Direction Rationalize Rationalization Quitter Quit Illuminate

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.”

Trying Important Self Wisdom Lost Steps Buddhism Mindfulness Honestly Assessment Admitting Rationalize Self Assessment

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.”

Humans Running Humanity Human Beings Existence Buddhism Understood Encounters Running Away Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.”

Humanity Forget Deals Minutes Buddhism Convenient Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.”

Ifs Needs Kind Feelings Choices Instinct Intuition Posts Rationalize

Author:Joe Wright

“It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.”

Needs Cowardice Rationalize

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.”

Ifs Writing Art Advice Justify Apologizing Rationalize Bad Writing

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.”

Doe Art Suits Inferiors Armor Postmodernism Facilitate Rationalize Wrapping Suits Of Armor

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.”

Lying Desire Choices Buddhism Fool Liberation Fulfillment Dharma Rationalize

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sam Harris fearlessly describes a moral and intellectual emergency precipitated by religious fantasies--misguided beliefs that create suffering, that rationalize violence, that have endangered our nation and our future. His argument for the morality, the honesty, and the humility of atheism is galvanizing. It is a relief that someone has spoken so frankly, with such passion yet such rationality. Now when the subject arises, as it inevitably does, I can simply say: Read Sam Harris’ Letter to a Christian Nation.”

“When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.”

Mind I Can Tired Excuse Coward Rationalize

Book:What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

“I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“Whenever any black man in america shows signs of an uncompromising attitude, against the injustices that he experiences daily, and shows no tendency whatsoever to compromise with it, then the American press [characterizes him] as a radical, as an extremist someone who's irresponsible, or as a rabble rouser or someone who doesn't rationalize in dealing with the problem.”

Men Shows Problem America Black Attitude Presses Injustice Tendencies Compromise Radical Irresponsible Extremist Rationalize Uncompromising

Author:Malcolm X

“People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.”

People Children Sometimes Use Action Greed Excuse Hypocrisy Respectable Despicable Rationalize Praiseworthy Usury

Author:Democritus

“I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet.)”

Knows Girl Marrying Houston Rationalize Good Family

Author:Maureen O'Hara

“The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.”

Humans Suffering Brain Roles Human Brain Rationalize

Author:Maile Meloy

“The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.”

Doe Goal Progress Achievement Notion Driven Absence Attachment Momentum Rationalize

Author:John Carroll

“By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.”

Ifs World Want I Can States Moving Nations Numbers Nuclear Eras Acknowledge Zero Sovereign Rationalize

Author:George Lee Butler

“The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in these relations.”

Men Feels Made Facts Use Might Situation Relation Shame Superiors Unconscious Contempt Prostitution Rationalize Transference

Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans

“I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?”

Looks Bottom Pushing Homeless Rationalize

Author:Thomas Reid

“In the 17 years since I graduated from this great College of Law, I have seen that, for many of us, it becomes increasingly easy to rationalize our actions in the name of expediency when facing difficult decisions-to choose a path where the ends justify the means. I want to ask you to challenge Machiavelli's philosophy. I want to humbly suggest that you be the guardians of a more complicated truth: that the means are as important-and sometimes even more important-than the ends.”

“What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.”

People Ifs Way Kind Stills Stories Would Be Able Creative Okay Cheat Storyteller Creative People Rationalize

Author:Dan Ariely

“You cannot rationalize what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called truthization. There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.”

People Ifs Way Believe Lying Argument Passionate Rational Propositions Flattery Rationalize Bribery

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!”

Ifs Trying Problem Religion Choices Evil Fear Okay Atheist Scared Be Good Rationalize

Author:Billy Joel

“The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.”

People Reality Faces Ability Ordinary Curse Lacking Ordinary People Rationalize

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.”

Thinking Knows Years Humans Ideas Reason Brain Demand Function Suspects Principal Doing You Leading Me Rationalize Lizards Human Reason

Author:Dave Hickey

“You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.”

Christian Leadership Church Sin Justify Rationalize

Author:Johnny Hunt

“The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.”

Knows May Mean Play Body Games Jesus Christ Sin Blood Forgiveness Crosses Excuse Ugly Bores Assurance Shameful Rationalize

Author:Jerry Bridges

“Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way.”

Ifs Way Believe Kind Art Care I Believe Honor Preparation Serving Living Things Rationalize

Author:Bryan Fuller

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