Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.
We continue to think of new things in old ways.
Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.