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Albert Einstein in Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist ed. by Schilpp
Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
Alphonse De Lamartine
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Austin Phelps
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful mentor.
Benjamin Franklin
A good conscience is a continued Christmas.
Bidpai Pilpay
Guilty consciences always make people cowards.
Billy Graham
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.
Chinese Proverb
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
Dante Dante Alighieri
O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!It., O dignitosa coscienza e netta, Come t' e picciol fallo amaro morso.
Dante Dante Alighieri
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth, It., Se toso grazia risolva le schiume Di vostra conscienza, si che chiaro Per essa scenda della mente il fiume.
Dante Dante Alighieri
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?." Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?." But, conscience asks the question, "Is it right?." And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
English Proverb
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.
General Omar Bradley in a speech in Boston, Mass, 11/10/48
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
George Bancroft
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Crabbe
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! woe for me, his deadliest foe!
George Eliot The Mill on the Floss
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Sand
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts--once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness--simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
George Santayana
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.
 
 
 
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