Conscience proverbs

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◆ A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

- Mark Twain99

◆ All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

- Rick Riordan99

◆ Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

- George Bernard Shaw99

◆ I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow99

◆ Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

- Joyce Meyer99

◆ Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

- Toba Beta99

◆ Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

- C.G. Jung99

◆ Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

- H.L. Mencken99

◆ Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

- Jim Carroll99

◆ The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

- George Washington99

◆ Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

- John Milton99

◆ The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

- Gaylord Nelson99