Jim Lehrer Quotes

I have a very clear conscience.

My conscience is clean.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

While I was thus carrying out my obligations, I never did anything with which my conscience would have to find fault

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

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

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

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.

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

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

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

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

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.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

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

A clear conscience is a sure card.

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.

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.