Conscience Quotes
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 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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