Conscience

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CONSCIENCE: Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. (Unknown Source)

CONSCIENCE: If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. (Unknown Source)

CONSCIENCE: If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

CONSCIENCE: Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience. (Hassidic proverb)

CONSCIENCE: Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

CONSCIENCE: There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light verse, 1902-1971)

CONSCIENCE: Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902)

CONSCIENCE: The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Harper Lee, U.S. Pulitzer Prize winner for the book To Kill a Mockingbird, 1926-2016)

CONSCIENCE: Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. (Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist who coined the term stereotype, 1889-1974)

CONSCIENCE: The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. (John Calvin, French theologian, pastor, and reformer during the Protestant Reformation, 1509-1564)

CONSCIENCE: Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people. (John D. Rockefeller, Sr., U.S. oil industry business magnate and philanthropist, 1839-1937)

CONSCIENCE: The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

CONSCIENCE: There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. (Polybius, Greek historian of the Hellenistic period, 200-118 BCE)

CONSCIENCE: One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house. The brain has corridors surpassing material place. (Emily Dickinson, U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

CONSCIENCE: The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any. (Ruth Wolff, U.S. playwright and screenwriter, 1927-2016)

CONSCIENCE: The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. (Harper Lee, U.S. novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, for which she received a Pulitzer Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1926-2016)

CONSCIENCE: No matter where I run, I meet myself there. (Dorothy Fields, U.S. librettist and lyricist who wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films, 1905-1974)