"Anybody can rationalize anything to his own satisfaction" ... but smart people tend to require a bigger rationalization to be satisfied. And they also tend t

"Anybody can rationalize anything to his own satisfaction" ... but smart people tend to require a bigger rationalization to be satisfied. And they also tend to be more capable of creating a rationalization of that magnitude. The question is whether they've developed the habit of "reality testing" and discarding flawed rationalizations.