Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.
James Harvey RobinsonIn its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.
James Harvey RobinsonCuriosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.
James Harvey RobinsonWe 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.
James Harvey Robinson