Germaine de Staël Quotes

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

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.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

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

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

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

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

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

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

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Fear is the mother of morality.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

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.

My conscience is clear.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Go by your own conscience.