• Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 23 reads

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• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 43 votes · 154 reads

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• Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 5 reads

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• Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 70 reads

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• Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 100 reads

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• Conscience: the only incorruptible thing about us.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 134 reads

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• God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 39 votes · 74 reads

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• He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.5 · 49 votes · 152 reads

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• If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 55 votes · 17 reads

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• In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.6 · 36 votes · 67 reads

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• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.8 · 64 votes · 173 reads

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• Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 159 reads

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• My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  5.0 · 54 votes · 180 reads

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• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 109 reads

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• No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 87 reads

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• O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 191 reads

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• One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 25 votes · 122 reads

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• People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 40 reads

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• Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 31 reads

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• Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 75 reads

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• The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 85 reads

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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.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 33 reads

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• The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 199 reads

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• The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 31 reads

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• There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.0 · 31 votes · 16 reads

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• There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.4 · 7 votes · 6 reads

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• There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 12 votes · 184 reads

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• What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 163 reads

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• What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 84 reads

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