Home / Topics / Conscience Quotes

Conscience Quotes

Browse 3008 quotes about Conscience.

Conscience Quotes

“Nature's hasty conscience.”

Conscience Shame Hasty

Book:Works

Source: Works

“A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.”

Men Children Grows Conscience Ideals Dignity Shame Competition Motivated

Book:The Intimate Journal of George Sand

Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.”

Men Made Spirit Found Chance Conscience Gold Shame Obstacles Bosoms Beggar Purses Blushing Mutiny

Book:First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

Source: First Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?”

People Persons Made Said Government Christian Young President Taken Personality Conscience Shame Senses Pity Made It Corporations Treasury Psychopathic

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.”

Night Turns Girl Sleep Virtue Grace Conscience Shame Blame Lays Staring Awake Soar Daylight Toss Fright Kites Good Girl Bad Girl

Author:Anna Godbersen

“It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.”

Men Believe Conscience Shame Guilt Remorse

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.”

Has Beens Conscience Shame Guilt Caught Burden Heavy Carrie Daily Life Reluctant

Book:Once Around the Sun

Source: Once Around the Sun

“A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.”

Self Conditions Honesty Sorrow Conscience Shame Foundation Guilt Invites Immense Anguish Condemnation Tranquil

Author:Richard G. Scott

“Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.”

Men God Conscience Shame Arise

Book:Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson

Source: Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson

“Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.”

Source: The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life

“When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves or someone else, or if it will tear down. The question is not what we can get away with, but what is healthy and edifying. When it is all said and done, are we edified spiritually? Have we been built up and strengthened in our relationship with the Lord or with our spouse, or have we been weakened? Do we come away encouraged or discouraged, confident or filled with a sense of guilt or shame? Is our conscience clean?”

Source: The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage