Rationalizing Quotes

We're constantly rationalizing where we stand and our own code and dealing with, you know, how you can be the best version of yourself.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

In an exercise of rationalizing competing interests, nobody usually gets 100% of what they want. That’s what multiple use is all about.

Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man's rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.

My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.

One theme we look at is what psychologists call motivated reasoning; lay people refer to it as self-deception, wishful thinking or rationalization. The list of creative ways people have for reaching conclusions they wish to reach and dismissing conclusions they find threatening is amazing. We've shown that it goes down even to the level of visual perception: You literally see what you want to see.