Franklin P. Adams Quotes

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

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.

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

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

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

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

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.

Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.

Conscience is wiser than science.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Conscience is a thousand swords.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.