Conscience Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

50 Conscience Quotes
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“A cleere conscience is a sure carde.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie) Quotes
Source: Euphues (p. 207), Arbor's reprint
“He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Comus (l. 381)
“Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 23)
“O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 842)
“Let his tormentor conscience find him out.”
John Milton Quotes
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 130)
“Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes
Source: Essays--Of Conscience (bk. II, ch. V)
“According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind. [Lat., Conscia mens ut cuique sua est, ita concipit intra Pectora pro facto spemque metumque suo.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes
Source: Fasti (I, 485)
“A clear conscience is a soft pillow.”
German Proverb Quotes
“Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.”
Samuel Butler Quotes
“A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.”
Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes
“Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.”
English Proverb Quotes
“A bad conscience has a very good memory”
Source Unknown Quotes
“Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes
“The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.”
Izaak Walton Quotes
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
George Bancroft Quotes
“Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.”
George Santayana Quotes
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
“Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.”
George Bancroft Quotes
“Conscience--the only incorruptible thing about us.”
Henry Fielding Quotes
“He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.”
Chinese Proverb Quotes
“No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!”
Lord Byron Quotes
“A good conscience is a continued Christmas.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes