Conscience Quotes

The unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the unknown.

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

A good conscience is a continual feast.

The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.

Our conscience, which is a great ledger book, wherein are written all our offenses… grinds our souls with the remembrance of some precedent sins, makes us reflect upon, accuse and condemn ourselves.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

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

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

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

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a “necessary evil,” it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.