Conscience Quotes - Page 5

• Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

  Robert Redford

  Food, Cooking, Healthy

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• What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fear, Law, Instance

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• Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, People, Soul

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"

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• The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Thinking, He Man

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3527, Delphi Classics

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• Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

  William Henry Harrison

  Heart, Voice, Revelry

  William Henry Harrison (1833). “Christmas tales, historical and domestic”, p.187

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

  William Whewell

  Reason, Employed

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

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• A good conscience is the best looking-glass of heaven.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Glasses, Heaven

  Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1820). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated”, p.303

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• Conscience makes egotists of us all.

  Oscar Wilde

  by Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, Lulu.com

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• A quiet conscience makes one strong!

  Anne Frank

  Strength, Strong, Peace

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Anger, Achievement, Society

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

  Lord Byron

  Quiet, Human Nature, Serene

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.29, Xist Publishing

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• No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, America, Rights

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

  Karl Barth

  Life, Perfect, Interpreter

  "The Word of God and the Word of Man". Book by Karl Barth, translated by Douglas Horton, 1928.

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• The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Life Lesson, Acceptance

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation

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• A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.

  Austin Phelps

  Men, Faithful, May

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• Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Oracles

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1014, Delphi Classics

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• Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Voiceless, Safe

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1973). “The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement”

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• Conscience is a man's compass.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Artist, Men, Compass

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Integrity, Forgiving, May

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• Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

  James Madison

  Religious, Liberty, Sacred

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.479

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• A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Emotion, Prophet, Evangelists

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• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

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• God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wrath, Intuition

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• The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Men, Wind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.36

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• To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Soul, Secret, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.137

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