Top 100 Conscience Is Quotes
#1. He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Thomas A Kempis
#2. For God also tells us that when you perform an action you believe to be a sin, it still counts as a sin even if it is proven to be permissible. Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of man.
G. Willow Wilson
#3. The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
#4. Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther
#5. While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#7. Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach
#8. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. - STEVEN WRIGHT
Darynda Jones
#9. No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
Rocco Buttiglione
#10. Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
Honore De Balzac
#11. Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore De Balzac
#12. Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.
Madame De Stael
#13. To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
Martin Luther
#14. One trains the eye of confession most closely on what is hurting. If sin is present it will be aching. Confession begins where the raw anguish of conscience is rubbing against the primordial awareness of God's holiness.
Thomas C. Oden
#17. The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone
#18. Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things ... My conscience is clear.
Johannes Heesters
#19. I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important ... It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.
Charles Darwin
#20. How different the peace of God from that of the world! It calms the passions, preserves the purity of the conscience, is inseparable from righteousness, unites us to God and strengthens us against temptations. The peace of the soul consists in an absolute resignation to the will of God.
Francois Fenelon
#21. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B.C. Forbes
#22. Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
W. Somerset Maugham
#23. A clean conscience is the preserve of those without sufficient imagination.
Alain De Botton
#25. Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!
William Shakespeare
#26. I think that if there are positions that you can't argue ... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
Elena Kagan
#27. A conscience is like a boat or a car. If you feel you need one, rent it.
JR
#28. [T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell
#29. A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still baking oven (so Pierius in his Hieroglyph compares it), another hell.
Robert Burton
#30. Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
William Gurnall
#31. Anger travels faster, conscience is slower! Angers goes ahead to destroy long before conscience lately arrives to regret! Don't try to keep anger just for a while ... It destroys before negotiations!
Israelmore Ayivor
#34. I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
Adolf Eichmann
#36. A social conscience is not incompatible with profit.
Anita Roddick
#37. Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
Jim Carroll
#38. Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
Brock Chisholm
#39. Do you know what morals are Violet? They're other people's rules. Do you know what a conscience is? Freedom to use your own intelligence to determine what is right or wrong. You possess that freedom and no one can remove it from you
Amy Tan
#40. Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Evan Esar
#41. Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau
#43. A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.
Ruta Sepetys
#44. Mind is the Soul speaking and Conscience is the Spirit speaking.
Ian Gardner
#46. Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness
H.L. Mencken
#48. Sometimes doing what's right for your conscience is not always the most popular decision, but I can guarantee that in retrospect you won't regret the choice you made.
Tyler Oakley
#49. A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#50. Sluts and losers are tolerable to my friends. But a person with a social conscience is from Pluto.
Melina Marchetta
#52. Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
William Shakespeare
#54. Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket ...
Ambrose Bierce
#55. Indeed, consumer choice informed by conscience is an unstoppable force for good.
Wayne Pacelle
#59. As a Christian, you can enjoy life because your conscience is clear. You can enjoy life because you are secure within God's love.
Rick Warren
#60. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
#61. Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
Khalil Gibran
#62. Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter Lippmann
#63. The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
Erich Fromm
#65. Her professional conscience is a collar. I hold the leash.
David Mitchell
#68. One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.
Martha Stout
#69. The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself ... Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.
Louise J. Kaplan
#70. Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Henry Taylor
#71. Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
Hannah Arendt
#72. The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist ... Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
#73. A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. Conscience is a God to all mortals.
Menander
#76. A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
Gaston Bachelard
#77. I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Gustave Flaubert
#78. I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
Matt Drudge
#79. Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
Charles Simmons
#80. Your clear conscience is due to a poor memory.
R. Newman
#81. Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.
Thomas Aquinas
#82. Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the secret of a good conscience is in some sort diminished, when by declaring what he hath done, a man receiveth the reward of fame.
Boethius
#83. Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Lee Greenwood
#84. The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.
Saul Alinsky
#85. 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
#86. My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.
Giulio Andreotti
#87. No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Harvey MacKay
#88. What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear - do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.
Emil Cioran
#89. A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is a prime reason why many do not know God's will.
Winkie Pratney
#90. We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
Carl Von Ossietzky
#91. Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
Charles Spurgeon
#92. Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.
Billy Graham
#93. My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death
Anne Rice
#94. Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.
Suzy Kassem
#96. The scorner has brought, in reference to himself, all religion and moral feeling to an end. He has sat down - is utterly confirmed in impiety, and makes a mock at sin. His conscience is seared, and he is a believer in all unbelief. Now, blessed is the man who sits not down in his SEAT. Adam Clarke.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#97. Can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?
William H. Seward
#98. A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God
Michael L. Brown
#99. Conscience is acquired through the realization that life is a cycle of giving and receiving, from which we can only receive from what we produce to others.
Daniel Marques
