Conscience Quotes - Quotations and Proverbs on Conscience
- There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience. – French Proverb
- Conscience is a sacred sanctuary where God alone may enter as judge. – Lamennais
- Conscience is God’s presence in man. – Swedenborg
- Conscience is the inner voice which warns us someone may be looking. – H. L. Mencken
- Conscience in the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. – H. L. Mencken
- I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God. – M. K. Gandhi
- The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. – Rabindranath Tagore
- A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing; that is a conscience not only quick to discern what is evil, but instantly to shun it, as the eyelid closes itself against the mote. – N. Adams
- Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. – Rabelais
- Love is too young to know what conscience is; yet he who knows not conscience is shorn of love. – Shakespeare
- Liberty of conscience (When people have consciences) is rightly considered the most indispensable of liberties. – Haddon Chambers
- Conscience was born when man had shed his fur, his tail, his pointed ears. – Sir Richard Burton
- Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority report. – Franklin P. Jones
- In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. – M. K. Gandhi
- Conscience is the voice of the soul as the passions are the voice of the body. No wonder they often contradict each other. – Rousseau
- Conscience does make cowards of us all. – Shakespeare
- Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a “necessary evil”, it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil. – Sydney Harris
- The only tyrant I accept in this world is the “still small voice” within me. – M. K. Gandhi
- The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. – General Omar Bradley
- Conscience is a great ledger book in which all our offences are written and registered. – Henry Burton
- The shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience. – Henry Home