Jonathan Swift Quotes

It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

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 allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

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

All I can say is that you have to live with your conscience at the end of your life, and it's the only thing that you have that belongs to yourself and nobody else.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

Conscience is the pulse of reason

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

My conscience is clear.