Quotes About Conscience

animal. Our self-reflective perception, our judging and choosing, are what constitute our soul, our consciousness, our conscience (sometimes).

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

No one of good character leaves behind a wasted life — whether they die in obscurity or renown.... Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. Although human beings often attempt self-delusion, we cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves. It will make itself known to us by means of our conscience despite our most strenuous effort to suppress it.

Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom...

There is no Scorpion like a guilty mind— No sting so terrible as he must bear Whose conscience still reproves.

If you lend me your ears, I shall doubtless take your hearts too. That I may not lead you into any wrong, let me warn you of this. Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul.

Vedete, così la penso io: se al bene che vorrei fare si avvicina troppo un grande male, allora preferisco non fare affatto il bene. Perché il male noi sappiamo benissimo qual è, il bene molto meno.»

What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?

We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putting a personal sense of doing right above any objective measure of the outcome. It's called 'moral vanity'.

For a moment, you won't be certain what you've done. What you've done is this: You have done the best you could. On the darkest of pathways, you have managed to stay true to the better angel of your nature.

Oh my god!" Travers exclaimed. "See no evil, hear no evil—

I have tried so hard to do right.

ako pogazimo sopstvene vrednosti, pogazili smo sve.

The concept of dharma evolved over time, its meaning shifting from a 'ritual ethics of deeds' to a more personal virtue based on one's conscience.

Dharma, the word at the heart of the epic, is in fact untranslatable. Duty, goodness, justice, law and custom all have something to do with it, but they all fall short.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking.

Just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it.

Often times it's easier to do bad things out of emotions, but we have to educate our minds to do the right thing which is harder to do. Proper discernment and wise decision is needed which needs a little time to act.