#conscience

"...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is authority based on falsehood, whereas science is authority based on truth. Man should be governed by science alone.""And conscience,"added the bishop."It's the same thing. Conscience is the quota of innate science we each have inside us."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience."

"Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything."

"Regardless of your chosen faith, at the end of your life's journey, your heart will be measured in two ways. One, the weight of your conscience must far outweigh the weight of a feather. Two, any impurities in your heart must weigh no more than one feather."

"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully."

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

"An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment."

"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."

"When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate."

"I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards."

"Stand up for your conscience. Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness. Use truth to fight the lies, and the heart to fight the mind."

"The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925."

"The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief."

"Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul."

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

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

"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."

"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

"Science without conscience is the soul's perdition."