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Conscience Quotes - Page 4

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.

Ocean, Compass, Conscience

Joseph Cook (1887). “Conscience: With Preludes on Current Events”

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

Integrity, Secure, Conscience

The conscience is more wise than science.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Wise, Conscience

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

James Russell Lowell

Failing, Intellect, Conscience

James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.140

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

James Freeman Clarke

Courage, Roots, Conscience

James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Self Esteem, Halos, Conscience

Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Inward, Honour, Conscience

Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

Religion is no more national than conscience.

Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

Religion, Conscience

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

Done, Conscience

"Commentary on Romans". Book by Thomas Aquinas. Chapter 14, 3,

Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.

Teresa of Avila

Command, One Thing, Conscience

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

Stanisław I Leszczyński

Integrity, Judging, Conscience

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors.

Philip Massinger

Wealth, Neighbor, Conscience

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Dominion, Ends, Conscience

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Century, 21st Century, Conscience

International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Theatre, Virtue, Conscience

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Virtue, Sentinels, Conscience

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Accusers, Conscience

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Charles Spurgeon

Affliction, Bears, Guilty Conscience

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

Photography is the very conscience of painting. It constantly reminds the later of what it must not do.

Photography, Painting, Conscience

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

Evil, Principles, Conscience

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 157, 1895.

I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myself. That took some work, but because of it I can now say no to other people with a clear conscience.

People, Rejection, Clear Conscience

"What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.

Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.

Guilt, Conscience

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

William Whewell

Reason, Employed, Conscience

William Whewell (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Morality Delivered in Lent Term, 1846”, p.144, London, J. W. Parker

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

William Shakespeare

Coward, Conscience

'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 178

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.

Conscience

Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.348

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