Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any of our assumptions leads us to seek every manner of excuse for clinging to them. The result is that most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.