Quotes About Conscience

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

Doing the next "right thing" will always bring more genuine happiness than simply doing the next fun thing.

Develop a conscience to live by.

Holy fear is to shun evil.

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

One should embrace the artist's profession only after recognising in oneself an intense passion for Nature and the disposition to pursue it with a perseverance that nothing can shatter - thirst for neither approval nor financial profit. Do not be discouraged by the censure that might fall upon one's works - one must be armoured with a strong conviction which makes one go straight ahead fearing no obstacle. An unremitting task […] an unassailable conscience. (From a sketchbook of 1847).

It's unsettling to see, emboldened by the veracity of black and white, the most deeply suppressed grapplings of your own smothered conscience, printed right there in the newspaper for all the world to read.

Despite everything he's been through, or maybe also because of it, her boy has weighed the call of his conscience above the call of his own salvation.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself.