CONSCIENCE QUOTES III

quotations about conscience

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I know thou art religious,
And hast a thing within thee called conscience,
With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,
Which I have seen thee careful to observe.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Trust that man in nothing who has not a Conscience in everything.

LAURENCE STERNE

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Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category.

JEAN FERRIS

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Conscience is the playback of the still, small voice that warned you not to do it in the first place.

EVAN ESAR

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I will place within them as a guide
My umpire Conscience, whom if they will hear,
Light after light well us'd they shall attain,
And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

JOHN MILTON

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I'd fired conscience months back, but it was still hanging around, miserable, unshaven, nowhere else to go.

GLEN DUNCAN

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I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away.

EDMOND ROSTAND

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

SIGMUND FREUD

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And so ought the conscience to be felt and known sacredly and not worn outside or proclaimed wantonly. There are privacies in the soul which willfully to strip naked is no more virtuous than in the body.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Conscience is but a word that cowards use,
Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe;
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Conscience is an exact recorder, that writes every man's history; an inward witness, that will sooner or later speak the whole truth; an impartial judge, whose sentence will acquit or condemn.

JOHN THORNTON

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We never do anything so secretly, but that it is in the presence of two witnesses: God, and our own conscience.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

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Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

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Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.

D. H. LAWRENCE

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Some men are born under the law; their whole life is a continued struggle between the lower principles of their nature and the higher. These are what are called men of principle; each of their best actions is a distinct choice between conflicting motives. One propension would bear them here; another there; a third would hold them still: into the midst the living will goes forth in its power, and selects whichever it holds to be best. The habitual supremacy of conscience in such men gives them an idea that they only exert their will when they do right; when they do wrong they seem to "let their nature go "; they say that "they are hurried away": but, in fact, there is commonly an act of will in both cases ;--only it is weaker when they act ill, because in passably good men, if the better principles are reasonably strong, they conquer; it is only when very faint that they are vanquished.

WALTER BAGEHOT

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The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

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A minority may do for a society what the conscience does for an individual.

JOHN HOWARD YODER

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.... Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

OSCAR WILDE

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Conscience is the magnet of the soul. It has a divine polarity. Amid the tempests of passion, in the dark hours of trial, that only lie just this side of despair, when a host of fierce temptations beleaguer, then consult this Divine Monitor; and though its tiny needle may tremble amid the attractions of earth, yet, if uncorrupted, its polestar will be the throne of God.

HORACE MANN

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

THOMAS JEFFERSON

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