Conscience Quotes

• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.423, Princeton University Press

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  A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Christmas, Sarcastic

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.92, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

  Martin Luther

  Justice, Lasts, Ends

  "On Marriage". Book by Martin Luther, 1530.

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• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Distance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Integrity, Judging

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• We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Ego, Doe

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• There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

  Sophocles

  Memories, Powerful, Terrible

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• The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Theatre, Virtue

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• There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

  John Wooden

  Clear, Clear Conscience, Pillow

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• Conscience is God present in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men

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• Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.

  William George Jordan

  Real, Knowing, Mentor

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• The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

  Izaak Walton

  Life, Learning, Loss

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• Conscience is God's presence in humans.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Humans, God's Presence

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• Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

  Joseph Cook

  Compass, Reason, Magnetic

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• He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.

  Izaak Walton

  Looks, Next, Praise

  The Compleat Angler Pt 1, Ch. 21

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• Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Religious, Peace, Voice

  Letter to three students (October 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.

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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Honesty, Powerful, Integrity

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

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• My conscience is captive to the Word of God

  Martin Luther

  Bible, Christian, Worms

  Martin Luther, Jaroslav Pelikan (1955). “Works”

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  If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Inspiring, Dog, Silly

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• Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Dwelling, May

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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Men, Two

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• Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Life, Freedom

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• 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

  Mean, Knowing, Able

  Robert Pollok, James Robert Boyd (1860). “Pollok's Course of Time”, p.159

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• God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Pain, Speak

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• When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Forgiveness, Peace, Honesty

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2007). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948”, Charles Scribner's Sons

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