Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Benjamin R. Haydon

Do your duty, and don’t swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Conscience | Consequences | Duty | God | Right | Wisdom |

Margaret Jenkins

Every pupil you have carries in his mind or heart or conscience a bit of you. Your influence, your example, your ideas and values keep marching on - how far into the future and into what realms of our spacious universe you will never know.

Conscience | Example | Future | Heart | Ideas | Influence | Mind | Universe | Will | Wisdom |

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

Authority | Church | Conscience | Critic | Will | Wisdom | Zeal |

Roger Manwood, fully Sir Roger Manwood

As touching corporations, that they were invisible, immortal and that they had no soul, therefor no supoena lieth against them, because they have no conscience or soul.

Conscience | Soul | Wisdom |

Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

He who overcomes an enemy by fraud is as much to be praised as he who does so by force.

Enemy | Force | Fraud | Wisdom |

Frederick Mayer

More than any other organization in history, the U.N. symbolizes the collective conscience of mankind.

Conscience | History | Mankind | Organization | Wisdom |

Pablo Neruda, pen name for Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto

All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

Awareness | Conscience | Destiny | Difficulty | Isolation | Order | Rites | Silence | Solitude | Wisdom | Awareness |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our powers of judgment are more completely exposed by being overpraised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Blame | Conscience | Judgment | Praise | Reason | Wisdom |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The philosopher has to be the bad conscience of his age.

Age | Conscience | Wisdom |

Francis Quarles

Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquire thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.

Chance | Conscience | Looks | Public | Study | Will | Wisdom |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only to listen too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body, which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

Body | Conscience | Instinct | Man | Nature | Reason | Right | Soul | Wisdom | Afraid |

Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, fully Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

Conscience | Nothing | Revolution | Wisdom |

Charles Simmons

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Accident | Care | Experience | Fraud | Knowledge | Labor | Religion | Riches | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Riches |

Gardiner Spring

It is no certain evidence, that because the conscience feels the weight of sin, the heart is humbled on account of it; that because the conscience approves of the rectitude of the Divine justice, the heart bows to the Divine sovereignty.

Conscience | Evidence | Heart | Justice | Sin | Wisdom |

Daniel Webster

Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life - it points to another world. Political or professional reputation cannot last forever, but a conscience void of offense before God and man is an inheritance for eternity.

Conscience | Eternity | God | Inheritance | Life | Life | Man | Offense | Reputation | Wisdom | World | God |