86 Quotes About Rationalization

Are the disjointed efforts of opinions, biases, cultural mandates, politically-correct notions, and all things vogue and trendy an effort to write ourselves sweeping permission to justify sweeping behaviors that will in time sweep us away?

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

How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?

When someone never takes responsibility for anything—words, actions, feelings—it is a challenging if not impossible way to maintain a relationship. They make up complex excuses and can rationalize anything. Be mindful as he shares the story of his life. Does he take ownership of past mistakes or missteps? Or does he share his history as though it were blameless and free of any errors on his part? Does he always seem to blame others for any negative situations in his life?

Ignoring is that magical slight-of-hand where we make something disappear by simply ceasing to acknowledge its existence. But we must remember that slight-of-hand never results in dead-and-gone.

Because we refuse to acknowledge something doesn’t mean that it’s not staring us right in the face.

Just putting a sign on the road does nothing to change where that road is going.

Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done.

Denial is the escape that never allows us to escape.