Conscience Quotes

conscience-wallpaperA brave man hazards life, but not his conscience. ~  Friedrich von Schiller
A clear conscience is a good pillow.~ French Proverb

A clear conscience is far more valuable than money.~ Filipino Proverb

A clear conscience shines not only in the eyes.~ Lebanese Proverb

A good conscience is better than a big wage.~ Jamaican Proverb

A guilty conscience is a lively enemy.~ Indian Proverb

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. ~ Carolyn Wells

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.~ English Proverb

A lie has no author, nor a liar a conscience.~ Indian Proverb

A man’s first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. ~  Mark Twain

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.~ English Proverb

Better a good conscience without wisdom than wisdom without a good conscience.~ German Proverb

Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.~ Chinese Proverb

Conscience, man’s moral medicine chest. ~  Mark Twain

Conscience: The inner voice which warns us that someone is looking. ~ Henry Louis Mencken

Conscience cannot be compelled.~ English Proverb

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ~  Oliver Goldsmith

Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.~ Italian Proverb

Conscience is the dog that can’t bite, but never stops barking.~ Traditional Proverb

Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched.~ Welsh Proverb

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.~  James Freeman Clarke

Conscience is what tells you not to do what you have just done.~ Spanish Proverb

Doctors purge the body, ministers the conscience, lawyers the purse.~ German Proverb

Don’t hang your conscience on your back.~ Chinese Proverb

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.~  William Ellery Channing

For a lot of people their conscience lives in the middle of the street.~ German Proverb

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.~ Chinese Proverb

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

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.~ Mark Twain

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

Money is a bottomless sea, in which honor, conscience, and truth may be drowned.~  Ivan Kozlof

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. ~ William Shakespeare

The belly has no conscience.~ German Proverb

The man whose conscience is clear will never fear a knock on the door at midnight.~ Chinese Proverb

The only guide to man is his conscience. ~  Winston Churchill

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. ~ Erich Fromm

The quiet conscience is an invention of the devil.~  Albert Schweitzer

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.~ French Proverb

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.~ Charles William Stubbs

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