Conscience
noun
The part of your mind that tells you what is right and wrong.
He knew in his conscience that he shouldn't lie to his friend.
Often appears as...
- clear conscience
- guilty conscience
noun
A feeling of guilt or regret for doing something wrong.
His conscience kept him awake at night after he stole his sister's toy
Often appears as...
- pangs of conscience
- prick of conscience
noun
Awareness or understanding of one's own thoughts, self and actions.
He had the conscience to admit his mistakes and apologize.
Often appears as...
- have a conscience
- be on someone's conscience
noun
The part of your mind that tells you what is right and wrong.
He knew in his conscience that he shouldn't lie to his friend.
Often appears as...
- clear conscience
- guilty conscience
noun
A feeling of guilt or regret for doing something wrong.
His conscience kept him awake at night after he stole his sister's toy
Often appears as...
- pangs of conscience
- prick of conscience
noun
Awareness or understanding of one's own thoughts, self and actions.
He had the conscience to admit his mistakes and apologize.
Often appears as...
- have a conscience
- be on someone's conscience
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Inner Guide
Think of 'conscience' as your moral compass guiding decisions.
She listened to her conscience and returned the lost wallet.
Pro Tip 2/3Clear vs. Guilty
'Conscience' can feel 'clear' if you've done right, 'guilty' if wrong.
After cheating on the test, his guilty conscience troubled him.
Pro Tip 3/3Idiomatic Expressions
'To have a conscience' means being aware of right and wrong.
He has a conscience, so he always treats others fairly.
Pro Tip 1/3Inner Guide
Think of 'conscience' as your moral compass guiding decisions.
She listened to her conscience and returned the lost wallet.
Pro Tip 2/3Clear vs. Guilty
'Conscience' can feel 'clear' if you've done right, 'guilty' if wrong.
After cheating on the test, his guilty conscience troubled him.
Pro Tip 3/3Idiomatic Expressions
'To have a conscience' means being aware of right and wrong.
He has a conscience, so he always treats others fairly.
Pro Tip 1/3Inner Guide
Think of 'conscience' as your moral compass guiding decisions.
She listened to her conscience and returned the lost wallet.
Pro Tip 2/3Clear vs. Guilty
'Conscience' can feel 'clear' if you've done right, 'guilty' if wrong.
After cheating on the test, his guilty conscience troubled him.
Pro Tip 3/3Idiomatic Expressions
'To have a conscience' means being aware of right and wrong.
He has a conscience, so he always treats others fairly.
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Steven Pinker and...
And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction? In this way of thinking, it's character and conscience, not cold-hearted calculation, that will save us. Besides, a human being is not a brain on a stick. My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led
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The danger of silence PIPE...
I figured the most valuable thing I could sacrifice was my own voice, but it was like I hadn't realized that I had given that up a long time ago. I spent so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to, told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience
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Empathy costs no dime PIPE...
our health care system you are your relatives almost every hand you are not alone there's barely any family in Nigeria that pulls rights have not been abused within our health care system how many people have been given treatments without the knowledge of conscience your medications
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The true power of the...
the very capacities that the arts cultivate with every encounter especially now as we all must confront the fallacy of a market only orientation uninformed by social conscience we must seize and celebrate the power of the Arts to shape our individual and
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My photographs bear...
They not only recorded history; they helped change the course of history. Their pictures became part of our collective consciousness and, as consciousness evolved into a shared sense of conscience, change became not only possible, but inevitable.
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Attenborough Talks About...
I'd like to do my my worry was that while I was the director program that some other parish it was good to go through and say what about this wonderful idea of doing the history of life and I couldn't in all conscience
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Becoming John Gotti's...
And he's laughing, and I'm laughing. As we're having that banter, somewhere in the back of your conscience, you're saying, am I going to do this, really? Am I going to take this guy's life?
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Love -- you're doing it...
That is, if I value the escalope, the escalope, on the other hand, it doesn't value me back. Whereas my wife, she calls me the star of her life. Therefore, only another desiring conscience
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Lauren Zalaznick: The...
are exported around the world. So I really hope our global audiences can relate. Two acknowledgments before our first data For inspiring me to even think about the idea of conscience
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A Fun, Animated History...
must be right i cannot and i will not regret what i have said i cannot act against my conscience luther says not many in the audience have heard the
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
And wasn't it reason that gave us the means to despoil the planet and threaten our species with weapons of mass destruction? In this way of thinking, it's character and conscience, not cold-hearted calculation, that will save us. Besides, a human being is not a brain on a stick. My fellow psychologists have shown that we're led
Video examples
The danger of silence PIPE...
I figured the most valuable thing I could sacrifice was my own voice, but it was like I hadn't realized that I had given that up a long time ago. I spent so much of my life telling people the things they wanted to hear instead of the things they needed to, told myself I wasn't meant to be anyone's conscience
Video examples
Empathy costs no dime PIPE...
our health care system you are your relatives almost every hand you are not alone there's barely any family in Nigeria that pulls rights have not been abused within our health care system how many people have been given treatments without the knowledge of conscience your medications
Video examples
The true power of the...
the very capacities that the arts cultivate with every encounter especially now as we all must confront the fallacy of a market only orientation uninformed by social conscience we must seize and celebrate the power of the Arts to shape our individual and
Video examples
My photographs bear...
They not only recorded history; they helped change the course of history. Their pictures became part of our collective consciousness and, as consciousness evolved into a shared sense of conscience, change became not only possible, but inevitable.
Video examples
Attenborough Talks About...
I'd like to do my my worry was that while I was the director program that some other parish it was good to go through and say what about this wonderful idea of doing the history of life and I couldn't in all conscience
Video examples
Becoming John Gotti's...
And he's laughing, and I'm laughing. As we're having that banter, somewhere in the back of your conscience, you're saying, am I going to do this, really? Am I going to take this guy's life?
Video examples
Love -- you're doing it...
That is, if I value the escalope, the escalope, on the other hand, it doesn't value me back. Whereas my wife, she calls me the star of her life. Therefore, only another desiring conscience
Video examples
Lauren Zalaznick: The...
are exported around the world. So I really hope our global audiences can relate. Two acknowledgments before our first data For inspiring me to even think about the idea of conscience
Video examples
A Fun, Animated History...
must be right i cannot and i will not regret what i have said i cannot act against my conscience luther says not many in the audience have heard the
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Quote examples
Herbert Hoover
American President
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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Voltaire
French Writer
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
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Enda Kenny
Irish Politician
I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.
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Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Activist
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
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Joyce Meyer
American Author
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
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Scott McClellan
American Politician
The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
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Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Quote examples
Herbert Hoover
American President
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Quote examples
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Russian Author
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Quote examples
Carl Jung
Swiss Psychologist
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Quote examples
Voltaire
French Writer
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Quote examples
Enda Kenny
Irish Politician
I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.
Quote examples
Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese Activist
I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world.
Quote examples
Joyce Meyer
American Author
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
Quote examples
Scott McClellan
American Politician
The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
Quote examples
Robert Green Ingersoll
American Lawyer
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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