Henry Taylor Quotes

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

People don't think of themselves as evil.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Most people live their life around what other people do.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

Upon common theaters … the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own approbation. But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss! …. If conscience disapproves, the loudest applause of the world are of little value.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

My mother's mantra was, 'How would it look to the neighbors?' And so you don't do anything because you're worried about how it would look to the neighbors.