CONSCIENCE QUOTES IV

quotations about conscience

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.... Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

OSCAR WILDE

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

SIGMUND FREUD

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Notwithstanding, pestilence may surprise even the castle of motive; and it is a strange power (rising up out of the depth which speech cannot explore, nor thought even think of, as the eye cannot see vision) that by conscience we can lay down rules for conscience and train it by good exercise, which is, for aught we know, as if a member of the body, feeling its own weakness, should set itself at exercise to gain strength.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

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Storms in the Conscience will always lodge clouds in the countenance.

WELLINS CALCOTT

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Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

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Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Scourges, racks, and flames, can inflict no pains to be compared with the stings and tortures of a guilty conscience.

JOHN THORNTON

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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

STEFAN ZWEIG

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Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

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Having a conscience is not the same as using it.

JOSTEIN GAARDER

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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

MARTIN LUTHER

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If we neglect conscience, most evils are possible.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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The relationship between the individual and God, the God-relationship, is the conscience.

SØREN KIERKEGAARD

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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Conscience after an evil act is like pulling stockings over muddy boots.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

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Conscience therefore is a high and awful power; it is solo Deo minor, next and immediately under God, our judge.

WELLINS CALCOTT

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Conscience is extinct among us, but it is said to still linger among the more savage tribes of Africa: proof that there is a pressing need for more missionaries.

ABRAHAM MILLER

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For conscience may be turned awry, or fall sick in a moral pestilence, like any other faculty.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

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Conscience is the factor which recognizes the inherent and essential distinction between right and wrong, and which impels to the right and dissuades from the wrong. It does not come within the province of this book to discuss either the basis of ethics or its laws; to consider either why some things are wrong and others are right, nor to point out what is wrong and what is right. That belongs to moral science, not to mental science. It must suffice here to say that the distinction between right and wrong is recognized in all peoples, and is one of the first objects of perception in childhood. Standards differ in different races and in different ages. The power of moral discrimination is subject to education both for good and for evil. But the sense of ought is as universal as the sense of beauty. That there is a right and a wrong is as evident to every mind as that there is a wise and a foolish, a beautiful and an ugly, a pleasant and a disagreeable.

LYMAN ABBOTT

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