Best Conscience Quotes

#1. I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.

Michael Eric Dyson

#2. I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.

John C. Calhoun

#3. The church works best as a force of resistance, a conscience to society that keeps itself at arm's length from the state. The closer it gets, the less effectively it can challenge the surrounding culture and the more perilously it risks losing its central message.

Philip Yancey

#4. Royce hated keeping secrets from Hadrian, and it weighed heavily on his conscience, which was amazing, because he had never known he had one. Royce defined right and wrong by the moment. Right was what was best for him - wrong was everything else.

Michael J. Sullivan

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

Ralph Cudworth

#6. My conscience doesnt bother me. I have no conscience. I believe the whole human race should be exterminated. I'll do my best to do it every chance i get

Carl Panzram

#7. No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#8. Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

Richard Llewellyn

#9. Bright Side wasn't only my best friend; she was like my other half ... the other half of my brain, the other half of my conscience, the other half of my sense of humor, the other half of my creativity, the other half of my heart.

Kim Holden

#10. The only conscience we can trust to is the massive sense of wrong in a class, and the best wisdom that will work is the wisdom of balancing claims. That's my text - which side is injured? I support the man who supports their claims, not the virtuous upholder of the wrong.

George Eliot

#11. He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#12. Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become ...

Brandon Sanderson

#13. It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

John Henry Newman

#14. I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

Alistair Overeem

#15. He shrugged, ... my conscience rests easiest if I do only what I see as best in the moment ...

Anihyr Moonstar

#16. I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

William Ralph Inge

#17. You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.

Carolyn Hax

#18. 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

#19. Shakespeare: ... the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

Louise Penny

#20. The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

Wadah Khanfar

#21. In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

Jeremy Taylor

#22. I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Sharon Kay Penman

#23. Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#24. Who born so poor,
Of intellect so mean, as not to know
What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do?
As not to know what God and conscience bade,
And what they bade not able to obey?

Robert Pollok

#25. Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Anton Chekhov

#26. When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.

Dominic Lawson

#27. Do you know what the best thing about a conscience is? You can never mute it. It's an unlimited stream of ideas flowing into your mind.

B.A. Gabrielle

#28. The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.

Benjamin Franklin

#29. I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is - not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.

George MacDonald

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

John Calvin

#32. Wisdom is finding the path that is best for all - considering the options, the positives and the negatives - and having the courage to change what must be changed for the sake of the entire world.

Laurence Overmire

#33. It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

John Adams

#34. Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.

Cornell Capa

#35. Cursed with conscience and damned with duty, because that's how we always reward the best of us.

Simon R. Green

#36. No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

Carol Ryrie Brink

#37. Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

J.R.D. Tata

#38. Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.

Susan B. Anthony

#39. In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Robert Hall