Conscience Quotes

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

— Benigno Aquino, Jr

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

— Juergen Teller

I'm prepared to stand by what I say.

— Frank Skinner

I stand behind what I say and what I do.

— Rob Van Dam

“Hope is cruel and has no conscience.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind

There is no college for the conscience.

— Theodore Parker

Conscience is wiser than science.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

— Publilius Syrus

Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.

— William Shakespeare

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

— Jose Saramago

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

— Richard Bach

“A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.”

— Ruta Sepetys

“Your clear conscience is due to a poor memory.”

— Anonymous

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

— Carl von Ossietzky

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

— Joyce Meyer

The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

— William Shakespeare

I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.

— Peter Morgan

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

— John Henry Newman

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

— Hassan Blasim

There is no need of justifying yourself to others, until you can justify yourself to your own conscience.

— Senora Roy

“clear conscience is a prerequisite for contemplative practice. You cannot come to the altar when you are not right with your fellow…

— Benjamin Riggs

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the…

— Ambrose

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God,…

— Archibald Alexander

“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a…

— Anthony Standen

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a…

— William Shakespeare

You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in…

— Roger Sherman

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it…

— Leo Rosten

The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows…

— Thomas Merton

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand…

— Isabel Allende

A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health…

— Aldo Leopold

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That…

— James MacGregor Burns

There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about…

— Shaqiq al-Balkhi

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as…

— William Shakespeare

It's true that in a lot of western feminist movements, you see women working singularly from men. Suffragettes and the women's rights…

— Asra Nomani

One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of…

— Tariq Ramadan

“I always understood the idea of the ultimate redeemer, Christ on the cross. But now I was beginning to see that this…

— John Lewis

The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions,…

— Arthur Hertzberg

It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on…

— Charles Spurgeon

“Any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really…

— Suzy Kassem

“We hear our legislators proclaim unceasingly their respect for the individual conscience, though it be a religious conscience, and themselves anticlericals. All…

— Antonin Sertillanges