Conscience Quotes & Sayings

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~ The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ~

~ Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ~

~ We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience. ~

Larisa Alexandrovna

~ Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation. ~

James Waddel Alexander

~ What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It is having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want. ~

Robert Laurence

~ If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ~

Arthur Schlesinger

~ In the midst of all the doubts which we have discussed for four thousand years in for thousand ways, the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. ~

Voltaire 1694

~ Conscience is the chamber of justice. ~

Origen

~ [Here] rests the soul of our nation-here also should be our conscience. ~

Caspar W. Weinberger

~ Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. ~

Izaak Walton

~ He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes ~

Chinese Proverbs

~ Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. ~

Leo Toystoy

~ Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ~

Benjamin Disraeli

~ Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. ~

Joseph Cook

~ Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. ~

Bishop Robert South

~ OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. ~

Father Dominique Pire

~ Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ~

Albert Camus

~ When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger ~

Lindsey Stewart

~ Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. ~

Bert Murray

~ It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience ~

French Proverb

~ There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience ~

French Proverb

~ Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. ~

James Freeman Clarke

~ Courage without conscience is a wild beast. ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ~

Doug Horton

~ The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil. ~

Albert Schweitzer

~ Conscience is the only clue that will eternally guide a man clear of all doubts and inconsistencies ~

Thomas Jefferson

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