C Quotes
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“Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.”
“Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.”
“Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.”
Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
“Conscience is wiser than science.”
“Conscience, like poetry, begins where the unsaid refuses to stay silent.”
“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Conscience reigns but it does not govern.”
“Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.”
Source: The Descendant
“Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.”
“Conscience should be the controlling mental faculty of a wise and civilized species, if it is to make progress without getting ripped apart into tiny little pieces.”
Source: Conscience over Nonsense
“Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.”
“Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.”
“Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.”
“Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.”
“Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.”
“Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.”
“Conscience without judgment is superstition.”
Source: Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney
“Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is.”
“Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.”
Source: The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c
“Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.”
Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings
“Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.”
“Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.”
Source: Christmas tales, historical and domestic
“Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.”
“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.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.”
“Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.”
Source: Alif the Unseen
“Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.”
“Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.”
“Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.”
Source: The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes
“Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.”
“Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.”
“Consciences keep silent more often than they should, that's why laws were created.”
Source: All the Names
“Consciente, además, la Iglesia del gravísimo deber de procurar cuidadosamente la educación moral y religiosa de todos sus hijos, es necesario que atienda con afecto particular y con su ayuda a los muchísimos que se educan en escuelas no católicas, ya por medio del testimonio de la vida de los maestros y formadores, ya por la acción apostólica de los condiscípulos, ya, sobre todo, por el ministerio de los sacerdotes y de los seglares, que les enseñan la doctrina de la salvación, de una forma acomodada a la edad y a las circunstancias y les prestan ayuda espiritual con medios oportunos y según la condición de las cosas y de los tiempos.
Recuerda a los padres la grave obligación que les atañe de disponer, a aun de exigir, todo lo necesario para que sus hijos puedan disfrutar de tales ayudas y progresen en la formación cristiana a la par que en la profana. Además, la Iglesia aplaude cordialmente a las autoridades y sociedades civiles que, teniendo en cuenta el pluralismo de la sociedad moderna y favoreciendo la debida libertad religiosa, ayudan a las familias para que pueda darse a sus hijos en todas las escuelas una educación conforme a los principios morales y religiosos de las familias.”
“Conscientious and careful physicians allocate causes of disease to natural laws, while the ablest scientists go back to medicine for their first principles.”
“Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.”
“Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.”
Source: The Mill on the Floss
“Conscientizar sobre saúde mental não significa combater o estresse, ansiedade, depressão e outros problemas cotidianos de saúde mental, mas sim modular conscientemente os hábitos que intensificam esses problemas. Assim que estiver no controle de seus hábitos, em vez de controlá-los, você estará automaticamente em uma forma muito melhor, tanto mental quanto fisicamente.”
“Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness.”
Source: The Act of Creation
“Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.”
“Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.”
“Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.”
“Conscious awareness tempers unbridled imagination that becomes fantasy or delusion. In balance, dreams do not become illusionary but visionary; not chaotic but controlled. (“With a dream in the clear sky of her mind”)”
“Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.”
“Conscious breathing anchors us into the nowness of life and gives us a fresh outlook, no different from how a baby observes reality without mental commentary. The baby enjoys watching the world and human activity without any limiting mental concepts spoiling his or her perception. Naturally, we all have to evolve from the helpless state of babyhood, but to be able to tap into that wonderful ability and truly BE in the moment is immensely liberating.”
Source: Mindfulness Burnout Prevention: An 8-Week Course for Professionals
“Conscious breathing can increase heart rate variability, which improves a range of symptoms such as stress, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, fatigue, obesity, depression, and aging.”
Source: Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork for Success in Life, Love, Business, and Beyond
“Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.”
Source: Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
“Conscious business.. business that is conscious of inner and outer worlds.. would therefore be business that takes into account body, mind, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. Put differently, conscious business would be mindful of the way that the spectrum of consciousness operates in the Big Three worlds of self and culture and nature.”
“Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.”
“Conscious Coaches keep their dedication to their families and their own health as they traverse the various roads of their professional career.”
Source: Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In
“Conscious creative visualization may mean a new way of thinking and a new way of living. As such, it will take practice.”
Source: Creative Visualization