Theodore Parker Quotes

It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.

Where are the vehicles to character development in secular society?

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

I get a lot of moral guidance from reading novels, so I guess I expect my novels to offer some moral guidance, but they're not blueprints for action, ever.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience correctly.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere.

Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why.

If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

It's hard to say 'No' and develop your moral fiber. That's why your school is so important.

Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

We need to provide an education which teaches crit­ical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values.

Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in the weak and unfortunate, uneasy in the undecided.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.