Conscience Quote by Ignazio Silone Download Open image ““How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”” — Ignazio Silone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conscience Ethics Excuses Intelligence
“It is not intelligence but ignorance and insecurity that causes arrogance and other delusions of superiority.” — Arne Klingenberg Copy Share Image
“Such arrogance. A right of youth, he supposes, a necessity. How else is it possible to face the terrifying void of your unformed self… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
“Surely intelligence wasn't enough; moral clarity was needed as well.” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Being articulate is not the same as being wise. Truth devoid of conscience, is worthless in human existence.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion and somethings an indirect boast.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.” — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.” — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“mediocre amount of intelligence is sometimes most dangerous. It does not take one far enough.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
“In provincia i segreti hanno vita breve. (In the countryside, secrets have a short lifespan).” — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you… — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists. — Ignazio Silone 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
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
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
I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without… — Hesketh Pearson Copy Share Image
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image