Famous Quotes
336 Quotations with Conscience.
- 21. William Ellery Channing: It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to com ...
- 22. Arthur Phelps: Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me i ...
- 23. Seneca: A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even i ...
- 24. Taylor: Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
- 25. Author Unknown: One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what ...
- 26. Author Unknown: A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
- 27. James F. Clarke: Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey ...
- 28. Mary McCarthy: People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
- 29. Ambrose Bierce: EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spi ...
- 30. Ambrose Bierce: FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon doctors in compensation for their ...
- 31. Ambrose Bierce: OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience ...
- 32. Ambrose Bierce: PHILANTHROPIST, n. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himse ...
- 33. Ambrose Bierce: PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, le ...
- 34. Ambrose Bierce: POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ ...
- 35. Ambrose Bierce: PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in de ...
- 36. Ambrose Bierce: RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and ...
- 37. Ambrose Bierce: SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be co ...
- 38. Ambrose Bierce: SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols.
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- 39. H. L. Mencken: A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience ...
- 40. Logan Pearsall Smith: Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses jus ...