John Henry Newman Quotes

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

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.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.

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

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.

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

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

I do what I think is right.

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

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

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

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.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

My conscience is clear.

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

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.