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Conscience Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
- Conscience makes egotists of us all.
- Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
- Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
- Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
- The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect…
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- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- Modesty is the conscience of the body. — Honore de Balzac
- Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. — Honore de Balzac
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard