Conscience Quotes

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The conscience is a man’s compass.[Het geweten is het kompas van een mensch.]

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

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Man’s conscience is the Oracle of God.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.[Gewissen ist die innere Wahrnehmung von der Verwerfung bestimmter in uns bestehender Wunschregungen.]

Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.

Conscience is God present in man.[La conscience, c’est Dieu présent dans l’homme.]

Conscience is an instinct, to judge with legal authority according to moral laws; it pronounces a judicial verdict, and just as a judge can only punish or acquit, but not reward, so conscience, too, either acquits or declares us to deserve punishment.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.[A mauvaise conscience, aveu nécessaire. L’œuvre est un aveu, il me faut témoigner.]

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

A good Conscience is a continual Christmass.