Conscience Quotes
- A bad conscience has a very good memory. ~ Author Unknown
- A 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 conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. ~ Author Unknown
- 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 conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. ~ Thomas Hobbes
- 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 and cowardice are really the same things. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Conscience cannot be compelled. ~ English Proverb
- Conscience in most men is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. ~ Jeremy Taylor
- 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 internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. ~ Sigmund Freud
- 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 the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. ~ Doug Horton
- Conscience is what tells you not to do what you have just done. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Conscience, man’s moral medicine chest. ~ Mark Twain
- Conscience: The inner voice which warns us that someone is looking. ~ Henry Louis Mencken
- 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
- Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life. ~ Norman Cousins
- People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you’re nice to the second housemaid. ~ Henry James
- Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ~ Josh Billings
- The belly has no conscience. ~ German Proverb
- The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- 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
- There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. ~ Sophocles
- To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. ~ Charles William Stubbs
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