A good conscience is a soft pillow.German ProverbTraditional attribution
Conscience Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
Conscience betrays guilt.Latin Proverb.Traditional attribution
Conscience is the voice of the soul.Polish Proverb.Traditional attribution
The belly does not have a conscience.German ProverbTraditional attribution
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.Albert EinsteinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Don’t hang your conscience on your back.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
A guilty conscience feels continual fear.Chinese Proverb.Traditional attribution
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.Thomas JeffersonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.Chinese ProverbTraditional attribution
A clear conscience is the greatest armor.Chinese Proverb.Traditional attribution
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.Benjamin FranklinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.Dutch Proverb.Traditional attribution
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.Leo TolstoyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder.English Proverb.Traditional attribution
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.H. L. MenckenAttributed in the original GADEL collection
No one else can represent your conscience.Native American Proverb.Traditional attribution
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves.Carl JungAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The best asset is a clean conscience.Polish Proverb.Traditional attribution
Conscience is God present in man.Victor HugoAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Conscience is as good as a thousand witnesses.Italian Proverb.Traditional attribution
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.SophoclesAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Conscience is a man’s compass.Vincent Van GoghAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Conscience is the chamber of justice.Italian Proverb.Traditional attribution
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.Lucius Annaeus SenecaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.Elizabeth IAttributed in the original GADEL collection
A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.American Indian Proverb.Traditional attribution
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.Honore de BalzacAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Conscience is only another name for truth.American Proverb.Traditional attribution
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.Josh BillingsAttributed in the original GADEL collection
You can’t kid your conscience.American Proverb.Traditional attribution
A clear conscience is more valuable than wealth.Filipino Proverb.Traditional attribution
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.Karl BarthAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Original collection & source
Original title: Conscience Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs To Make You Think
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