Conscience Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain)
Conscience is a thousand witnesses. View quote
Quintilian
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. View quote
Lillian Hellman
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. View quote
Logan Pearsall Smith
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. View quote
Richard Bach
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. (Mark Twain)
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Conscience reigns but it does not govern. View quote
Paul Valéry
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience. View quote
George Washington
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. View quote
Harriet Martineau
A good conscience is a continual feast. View quote
Robert Burton
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
If a dog will not come to you after he has looked you in the face, you ought to go home and examine your conscience. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Conviction is the conscience of the mind. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. View quote
H. L. Mencken
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.