Ethics Quote by George Eliot

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

— George Eliot

“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

“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 the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Herman Melville

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

— George Bancroft

“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous”

— Thomas Hobbes

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“This is what is meant by conscience: it is not a mysterious, extra-rational faculty, but the best and final judgment of our reason concerning…

— Timothy Shah

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 is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

— Thomas Merton