quotations about conscience
And so ought the conscience to be felt and known sacredly and not worn outside or proclaimed wantonly. There are privacies in the soul which willfully to strip naked is no more virtuous than in the body.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
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Essays
I'd fired conscience months back, but it was still hanging around, miserable, unshaven, nowhere else to go.
GLEN DUNCAN
Talulla Rising
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Dear Theo: the Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh
Having a conscience is not the same as using it.
JOSTEIN GAARDER
Sophie's World
Conscience is the magnet of the soul. It has a divine polarity. Amid the tempests of passion, in the dark hours of trial, that only lie just this side of despair, when a host of fierce temptations beleaguer, then consult this Divine Monitor; and though its tiny needle may tremble amid the attractions of earth, yet, if uncorrupted, its polestar will be the throne of God.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
SIGMUND FREUD
Totem and Taboo
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Beware of Pity
In a world descending into barbarism, having a conscience is like having leprosy; it eats you away.
LINDA BENDER
Animal Wisdom
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Vicar of Wakefield
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.... Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
OSCAR WILDE
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sin in the conscience, is like Jonah in a ship, which causeth such a tempest, that the conscience is like a troubled sea, whose waters cannot rest, or it is like a mote in the eye, which causeth a perpetual trouble while it is there.
THOMAS BROOKS
A Cabinet of Jewels
Wicked men by specious errors and intoxicating pleasure contrive to lull conscience into a slumber; but when it wakes, its voice is louder than thunder, and its strokes keener than flashes of lightning.
JOHN THORNTON
Maxims and Directions for Youth
Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
letter to John P. Posey, Aug. 7, 1782
If we neglect conscience, most evils are possible.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
For conscience may be turned awry, or fall sick in a moral pestilence, like any other faculty.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Conscience therefore is a high and awful power; it is solo Deo minor, next and immediately under God, our judge.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Points of conscience are to be distinguished from matters of taste or judgment, for not everything which we disapprove must be lifted into a matter of conscience.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
The relationship between the individual and God, the God-relationship, is the conscience.
SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Works of Love
Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Storms in the Conscience will always lodge clouds in the countenance.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine