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Sayings about Conscience:

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

Merit and good works is the end of man’s motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man’s rest.: Francis Bacon

He has a secret spring of spiritual joy and the continual feast of a good conscience within that forbids him to be miserable.: Richard Bentley

Men want arguments to reconcile their minds to what is done, as well as motives originally to act right.: Edmund Burke

What act of oblivion will cover them from the wakeful memory, from the notices and issues of the grand remembrancer—the God within?: Edmund Burke

Conscience is a great ledger-book, in which all our offences are written and registered.: Robert Burton

Light as a gossamer is the circumstance which can bring enjoyment to a conscience which is not its own accuser.: W. Carleton

To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism: had we never sinned, we should have had no conscience.: Thomas Carlyle

Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.: Dr. Thomas Chalmers

What is conscience? If there be such a power, what is its office? It would seem to be simply this: to approve of our own conduct when we do what we believe to be right, and to censure us when we commit whatever we judge to be wrong.: Dr. Alexander Crombie

A good conscience is a port which is land-locked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed and silent waters.: John Dryden

Your modesty is so far from being ostentatious of the good you do, that it blushes even to have it known: and therefore I must leave you to the satisfaction of your own conscience, which, though a silent panegyric, is yet the best.: John Dryden

If thou desirest ease, in the first take care of the ease of thy mind, for that will make other sufferings easy.: Thomas Fuller

Hither conscience is to be referred: If by a comparison of things done with the rule there be a consonancy, then follows the sentence of approbation; if discordant from it, the sentence of disapprobation.: Sir Matthew Hale

Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or “ego” of its acts and affections:—in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine.: Sir William Hamilton

If, therefore, mediate knowledge be in propriety a knowledge, consciousness is not co-extensive with knowledge.: Sir William Hamilton

The legal brocard, “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus,” is a rule not more applicable to other witnesses than to consciousness.: Sir William Hamilton

What is sorrow and contrition for sin? A being grieved with the conscience of sin, not only that we have thereby incurred such danger, but also that we have so unkindly grieved and provoked so good a God.: Henry Hammond

Every man’s heart and conscience doth in good or evil, even secretly committed, and known to none but itself, either like or disallow itself.: Richard Hooker

Because conscience, and the fear of swerving from that which is right, maketh them diligent observers of circumstances, the loose regard whereof is the nurse of vulgar folly.: Richard Hooker

To have countenanced in him irregularity, and disobedience to that light which he had, would have been to have authorized disorder, confusion, and wickedness in his creatures.: John Locke

Let a prince be guarded with soldiers, attended by councillors, and shut up in forts; yet if his thoughts disturb him, he is miserable.: Plutarch

An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness.: Alexander Pope

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.: Francis Quarles

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprizes of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.: William Shakespeare

Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor.: William Shenstone

I seek no better warrant than my own conscience, nor no greater pleasure than mine own contentation.: Sir Philip Sidney

“Conscience” is a Latin word, and, according to the very notation of it, imports a double or joint knowledge; one of a divine law, and the other of a man’s own action; and so is the application of a general law to a particular instance of practice.: Robert South

Every man brings such a degree of this light into the world with him, that though it cannot bring him to heaven, yet it will carry him so far that if he follows it faithfully he shall meet with another light which shall carry him quite through.: Robert South

There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.: Robert South

The authority of conscience stands founded upon its vicegerency and deputation under God.: Robert South

Conscience never commands nor forbids any thing authentically but there is some law of God which commands or forbids it first.: Robert South

If conscience be naturally apprehensive and sagacious, certainly we should trust and rely upon the reports of it.: Robert South

Let every one, therefore, attend the sentence of his conscience; for he may be sure it will not daub nor flatter.: Robert South

The reason of mankind cannot suggest any solid ground of satisfaction but in making God our friend, and in carrying a conscience so clear as may encourage us with confidence to cast ourselves upon him.: Robert South

Conscience is its own counsellor, the sole master of its own secrets; and it is the privilege of our nature that every man should keep the key of his own breast.: Robert South

If a man accustoms himself to slight those first motions to good, or shrinkings of his conscience from evil, conscience will by degrees grow dull and unconcerned.: Robert South

All resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it.: Robert South

No honour, no fortune, can keep a man from being miserable when an enraged conscience shall fly at him, and take him by the throat.: Robert South

Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in every thing.: Laurence Sterne

No word more frequently in the mouths of men than conscience; and the meaning of it is, in some measure, understood: however, it is a word extremely abused by many who apply other meanings to it which God Almighty never intended.: Jonathan Swift

God is present in the consciences of good and bad: he is there a remembrancer to call our actions to mind, and a witness to bring them to judgment.: Jeremy Taylor

What is called by the Stoics apathy or dispassion [is called] by the Sceptics indisturbance, by the Molinists quietism, by common men peace of conscience.: Sir William Temple

Methinks though a man had all science and all principles yet it might not be amiss to have some conscience.: John Tillotson

What comfort does overflow the devout soul from a consciousness of its own innocence and integrity!: John Tillotson

The most sensual man that ever was in the world never felt so delicious a pleasure as a good conscience.: John Tillotson

Conscientious sincerity is friendly to tolerance, as latitudinarian indifference is to intolerance.: Richard Whately

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