Character Quotes
Anyone else on this page has about a third as many entries as Shakespeare. Next come Pope, Milton, James Russell Lowell and Goethe. The sentence worth reading in context is Emerson’s, from The American Scholar (1837): character is higher than intellect, and a great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think.
Shaw, in Man and Superman (1903), is here for a remark about marriage and morality, which shows how loosely the page’s topic is applied.
Three entries are flagged. Two sayings credited to the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus, one about character deciding every man’s fortune and one about doing nothing at once both hastily and prudently, are disputed. A passage credited to Joseph Addison, about imperfection being what complains of the imperfect, is marked misattributed.
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience.
It is our imagination, not our conscience, which makes us better than the beasts of the field.
The sense of the ontic discourse is one’s science-conscience of the Being-like-a-Being.
When conscience is no longer the compass, corruption prevails.
When the time comes, we will know how to take up our responsibilities, in conscience.
What matters is following your conscience as a Catholic. Everyone had this duty in Poland.
One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
I've been wading in shit for three months to allow others to indulge their conscience [on the EEC].
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.