Quotations On Conscience
  • Conscience is a clock which, in one man, strikes aloud and gives warning; in another, the hand points silently to the figure, but strikes not. Meantime, hours pass away, and death hastens, and after death comes judgment.—Jeremy Taylor.
  • A good conscience is a continual Christmas.—Franklin.
  • Oh! Conscience! Conscience! Man's most faithful friend,


Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend:
But if he will thy friendly checks forego,
Thou art, oh! wo for me, his deadliest foe!
—Crabbe.

  • In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.—Quarles.
  • No man ever offended his own conscience, but first or last it was revenged upon him for it.—South.
  • He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it praise God and value it next to a good conscience.—Izaak Walton.
  • Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.—Joseph Cook.
  • A man never outlives his conscience, and that, for this cause only, he cannot outlive himself.—South.
  • Rules of society are nothing, one's conscience is the umpire.—Madame Dudevant.
  • A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.—Douglas Jerrold.
  • In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best—Rev. Robert Hall.
  • Conscience raises its voice in the breast of every man, a witness for his Creator.—Author Unknown
  • We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.—Colton.
  • I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.—Luther.
  • The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.—Fichte.
  • Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. —Sterne.
  • Conscience is its own readiest accuser.—Chapin.
  • If thou wouldst be informed what God has written concerning thee in Heaven look into thine own bosom, and see what graces He hath there wrought in thee.—Fuller.

  • The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquillity until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest; and that without the concurrence of the former the latter are but impositions upon ourselves and others.—Steele.
Be mine that silent calm repast,
A conscience cheerful to the last:
That tree which bears immortal fruit,
Without a canker at the root;
That friend which never fails the just,
When other friends desert their trust.
—Dr. Cotton.
  • There is one court whose "findings" are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.—Hosea Ballou.


Yet still there whispers the small voice within,
Heard thro' gain's silence, and o'er glory's din;
Whatever creed be taught or land be trod,
Man's conscience is the oracle of God!
—Byron.

  • A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public.—Addison.
  • He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.—Patrick Henry.
 

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