Conscience Quotes - Page 3

• The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Life, Change, Deep Thought

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Names, Cowardice, Basil

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

  Anne Frank

  Strong, Each New Day, Quiet

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Virtue, Sentinels

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• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Long, Solitude

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• When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Men, Law

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• In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Men, Evil

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.47

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• It is the business of little minds to shrink.

  Carl Sandburg

  Strength, Being Strong, Perseverance

  Carl Sandburg (1948). “Remembrance Rock”

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• The passions are the voice of the body.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Voice, Body

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.476, eKitap Projesi

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• The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
  By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

  John Milton

  Strong, Champion, Mind

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.209-11.

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• To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Song, Should Have, Victory

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.7

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• Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Gold, Mutiny

  William Shakespeare (2013). “First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III”, p.760, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Passion, Voice, Giving

  Thomas Chalmers (1857). “On Natural Theology”, p.327

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• In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Men, Practice, Voice

  Thomas Chalmers, John Cumming (1853). “On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man by Thomas Chalmers”, p.57

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• A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.

  John Dryden

  Men, Wind, Water

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• Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

  Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real

  Spiritual, Health, Serenity

  "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims" by François de La Rochefoucauld, p. 108, 1665-1678.

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• Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Doe, Hue

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• Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Filled Up, Plot

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.179

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• No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

  Lord Byron

  Inward, Ears, Tongue

  George Gordon Byron, “The Giaour [Unquenched, Unquenchable]”

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• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Pride, Average

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• There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Class, People, Honest

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• SixDegrees.org is about using the idea that we are all connected to accomplish something good. It is my hope that Six Degrees will soon be something more than a game or a gimmick. It will also be a force for good, by bringing a social conscience to social networking.

  Kevin Bacon

  Games, Ideas, Six

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• He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.

  Patrick Henry

  Men, Dumb, Sides

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• Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Law, Judging

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• Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Love Is, Personality

  Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

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