Conformity Quote by Frances G. Wickes

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

— Samuel Smiles

Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which…

— Emile Durkheim

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

— Oswald Chambers

Conscience is the moralized form of self-absorption.

— Mason Cooley

“Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire to survive.”

— Ilchi Lee

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Our consciences are not all of the same pattern, an inner deliverance of fixed laws: they are the voice of sensibilities as various as…

— George Eliot

“Conscience is the absolute truthfulness perceived, which comes from Nothing, our true nature, and as such reflects things exactly the way they are.”

— Ilchi Lee

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

— Edwin Louis Cole