Conscience Quotes
Conscience Quotes
These conscience quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.
"With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects. Words that still shape our understanding of trade."
-- Adam Smith"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience."
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These conscience quotes capture different sides of the experience — from struggle to strength. Find the lines that resonate and carry them with you.
Some of the most celebrated conscience quotes come from Confucius, William Shakespeare, Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Vivekananda, Adam Smith, among many others featured on this page.
Popular conscience quotes include: "If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?" -- Confucius Also: "Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind." -- William Shakespeare.
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