Robert Hall Quotes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

I do what I think is right.

Before you do anything, you need to know if it's right or wrong.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

You just have to do what you know is right.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

Must we always do our duty? If so, how are we always to know what is our duty?

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

You must always do what you feel is right.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

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.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

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