Conscience Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestral Ancestral Faint Conscience Conscience Accumulated Ethics Faint Heartedness
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has always existed.… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous. — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Being tolerant does not mean that I share another ones belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another ones right to believe, and… — Viktor Frankl Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
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