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.
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
To whom had he retailed his conscience, Sandra wondered, and what was the going price these days?
It is the business of the teacher … to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign.
“A collective conscience across all caregivers will help us develop protection mechanisms.”
PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it.
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.