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Rationalize Quotes

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

Warren Buffett
Easier, Rational, Rationalize

We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

Simon Sinek
Quitting, Rationalize
Twitter post from Feb 12, 2015

And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Orson Scott Card
Stupidity, Idiot, Rationalize
Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.291, Macmillan

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

Julius Erving
Deals, Knows, Rationalize

...it is in the very fundamentals of evil that one always condemns it when they see it but rationalizes it when they do it.

Jack L. Chalker
Evil, Fundamentals, Rationalize
Jack L. Chalker (1999). “90 Trillion Fausts”, p.133, Baen Books

It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.

Eric Hoffer
Needs, Cowardice, Rationalize
Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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