Dennis Quaid Quotes

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety, for such as our life and conduct have been, so also of necessity will be our dreams.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

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

If you care enough to look right, you care enough to act right. And vice versa.

People don't think of themselves as evil.

Sometimes my dreams are so deep that I dream that I'm dreaming.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.

You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself.

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

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

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.