Francois Rabelais Quotes

… knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

There is no sin but ignorance.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

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

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

We must do what we conceive to be the right thing, and not bother our heads or burden our souls with whether we are going to be successful. Because if we don't do the right thing, we'll be doing the wrong thing, and we will just be part of the disease, and not a part of the cure.

Conscience is wiser than science.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial.