Quote: A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. Author: Izaak Walton 1593-1683, British Writer
Quote: Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience Author: George Washington 1732-1799, First President of the USA
Quote: A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: A good conscience is a continual feast. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. Author: George Bancroft 1800-1891, American Historian
Quote: The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. Author: Sir Max Beerbohm 1872-1956, British Actor
Quote: Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. Author: Marguerite Gardiner Blessington 1789-1849, Irish Writer and Socialite
Quote: The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor
Quote: What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet
Quote: Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell! Author: Lord Byron 1788-1824, British Poet
Quote: It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. Author: Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
Quote: A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it. Author: Frank A. Clark
Quote: If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear? Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well? Author: Cyril Connolly 1903-1974, British Critic
Quote: Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. Author: Joseph Cook
Quote: The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. Author: William Cowper 1731-1800, British Poet
Quote: O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! Author: Dante (Alighieri) 1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet
Quote: Honor is the moral conscience of the great. Author: D'Avenant 1606-1668, British Poet, Playwright
Quote: Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. Author: Madame Dudevant
Quote: Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. Author: William Faulkner 1897-1962, American Novelist
Quote: Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. Author: Michel Foucault 1926-1984, French Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. Author: St. Francis of Assisi 1181-1226, Italian Preacher, Founder of the Franciscan Orde
Quote: I feel bad that I don't feel worse. Author: Michael Frayn 1933-, British Playwright, Novelist, Journalist
Quote: Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. Author: Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, Austrian Physician - Founder of Psychoanalysis
Quote: Conscience is a man's compass. Author: Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890, Dutch Painter
Quote: In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain. Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-1864, American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Quote: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. Author: Lillian Hellman 1905-1984, American Playwright
Quote: A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. Author: Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679, British Philosopher
Quote: Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. Author: Doug Horton
Quote: People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. Author: Henry James 1843-1916, American Author
Quote: Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires. Author: C. E. M. Joad 1891-1953, British Author, Academic
Quote: Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within. Author: Immanuel Kant 1724-1804, German Philosopher
Quote: A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. Author: Alphonse De Lamartine 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian
Quote: Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater 1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic
Quote: Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. Author: Irving Layton 1912-, Canadian Poet
Quote: The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Author: Harper Lee 1926-, American Author
Quote: Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course. Author: Robert J. Little
Quote: Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. Author: Lucretius c.95-55 BC, Roman poet and philosopher
Quote: Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 1689-1762, British Society Figure, Letter Writer
Quote: My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight. Author: Allanah Myles Canadian Singer
Quote: I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet
Quote: There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Author: Ogden Nash 1902-1971, American Humorous Poet
Quote: Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: Conscience is the chamber of justice. Author: Origen c.185-c.254, Egyptian Christian Biblical Scholar, Theologian
Quote: Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law. Author: Arthur Phelps
Quote: Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking. Author: Proverb
Quote: He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: A clear conscience is a soft pillow. Author: German Proverb Sayings of German Origin
Quote: In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. Author: Thomas De Quincey 1785-1859, British Author
Quote: Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778, Swiss Political Philosopher, Educationist, Essayist
Quote: What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. Author: Helen Rowland 1875-1950, American Journalist
Quote: Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: Conscience does make cowards of us all. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist
Quote: We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. Author: Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist
Quote: There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Author: Germaine De Stael 1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
Quote: Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. Author: Jeremy Taylor 1613-1667, British Churchman, Writer