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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
-Chinese Proverb
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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
-Proverb
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Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.
-Proverb
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
-Francis Bacon
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
-George Bancroft
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
-Max Beerbohm
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
-Josh Billings
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
-Marguerite Blessington
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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
-Samuel Butler
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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
-William Ellery Channing
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.
-Frank A. Clark
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If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?
-Confucius
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?
-Cyril Connolly
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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
-Joseph Cook
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
-William Cowper
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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
-D'Avenant
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
-Dante Alighieri
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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.
-Madame Dudevant
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
-Albert Einstein
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Books about Conscience
