Favorite Quotations ~  Conscience Conscience and Courage

"Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart." ~ Stephen R.Covey

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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. ~ Omar Nelson Bradley

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person ’s conscience. ~ Harper Lee

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. ~ Albert Camus

All a man can betray is his conscience. ~ Joseph Conrad

Conscience is a mother in law whose visit never ends. ~ H. L. Mencken

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience. ~ Oliver Cromwell

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go. ~ Billy Graham

The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any. ~ Ruth Wolff

A clear conscience is far more valuable than money. ~ Philippines Proverb

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible. ~ Franz Kafka

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Conscience is the root of all true courage. ~ James Freeman Clark

You can wash your hands but not your conscience. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Conscience is the chamber of justice. ~ Origenes Adamantius

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience. ~ Friedrich Von Schiller

A country free enough to examine its own conscience is a land worth living in, a nation to be envied. ~ Prince Charles

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befall us. ~ Joseph Addison

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. ~ Carolyn Wells

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ~ Doug Larson

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. ~ English Proverb

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