Conscience Quotes - Page 10

• Conscience is the chamber of justice.

  Origen

  Justice, Ethics, Fairness

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources". Book by James Wood, p. 46, 1899.

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• Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, Doe, Utterance

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• Trust me no tortures which the poets feign
  Can match the fierce unutterable pain
  He feels, who night and day devoid of rest
  Carries his own accuser in his breast.

  Juvenal

  Pain, Night, Fierce

  Juvenal (1871). “The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...”, p.470

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• A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

  Henry Fielding

  Law, Forgotten, Neglect

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.395

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• Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

  Samuel Smiles

  Religious, Soul, Peculiar

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

  Francois Rabelais

  Knowledge

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• No matter how big a house you have or how slick a car you drive, the only thing you can take with you at the end of your life is your conscience.

  Robin Sharma

  Car, House, Matter

  Robin Sharma (2003). “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny”, p.134, Jaico Publishing House

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• Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

  Kirk Cameron

  Jesus, Differences, People

  "Kirk Cameron: The Gospel Truth". Interview with Laura Bagby, www.cbn.com.

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• Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Long, Way

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• Conscience is a thousand swords.

  William Shakespeare

  Thousand

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.207

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

  Thomas Paine

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  "The American Crisis: The Crisis No. I". Book by Thomas Paine, en.wikisource.org. December 23, 1776.

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• Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Service Culture

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

  Alannah Myles

  Fighting, Ache, Loses

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• Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

  Paul Valery

  Doe, Reign

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• Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, Surrender, Individual

  Theodore Roosevelt (2005). “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, p.389, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue.

  Alexander Pope

  Done, Hell, Teach

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.462

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• Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
  And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Fellow Man, Flesh

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Joy, Joy, Foundation

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• Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Hands, Personality, Balance

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Devil, Quiet, Invention

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• Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Society, Accounts

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• Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

  William Morley Punshon

  Safe, Cowardice, Expediency

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• Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Age

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Hurt, Feels, Marvelous

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• Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Majority, Doe, Changing Your Life

  "A Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1882.

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