Without power of thought, what we call conscientiousness, or a desire to do right, shoots out into illusion, exaggeration, pernicious excess. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
But having a personality trait known as conscientiousness seems to matter, too, according to a new study. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
His conscientiousness was his capital ... and he exacted an exorbitant interest for it. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Tales and Prose Poems] Reference
All Huxley's work was marked by a quality which may be called conscientiousness or thoroughness. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work] Reference
I do wonder, though, why they didn't show a separate bar for conscientiousness, which is supposed to predict job performance in almost any line of work. From Wordnik.com. [Does Personality Matter? Compared to What?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
"conscientiousness" - play their ever increasing part and complicate the psychological situation. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
At this point it may repay us to note more carefully the inadequacy of that mere blind conscientiousness which is the practical burden of the Kantian teaching. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
I might as well plead 'conscientiousness' in maintaining an accusation that. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference
Kahnis says of him: "We might indeed call conscientiousness the fundamental virtue of Bengel. From Wordnik.com. [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference
Ah! for me to learn to believe in your "conscientiousness," ye would first have to break your venerating will. From Wordnik.com. [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference
His conscientiousness was a lesson to us all. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
'conscientiousness' in maintaining the accusation as to Hegel. From Wordnik.com. [A Public Appeal for Redress to the Corporation and Overseers of Harvard University Professor Royce's Libel] Reference
Then, too, his conscientiousness stood in his way. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
Men of real conscientiousness love the right for its own sake. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
To satisfy the conscientiousness of Christians, I published in the. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
In replying to such a note great conscientiousness should be shown. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
To this feeling her great love and strong conscientiousness gave birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Speise-Karte with a conscientiousness that was worthy of a better cause. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
Regarding the conscientiousness of their motives, opinions were divided. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Davutoglu's conscientiousness manifested itself at a relatively early age. From Wordnik.com. [‘Window to the Future’] Reference
Vanity, indeed, often joins conscientiousness in hastening on a revelation. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
The value of conscientiousness is principally seen in the benefits of civilization. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Lessons of purity and conscientiousness must be written deep on the tables of the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
We may therefore define conscientiousness as the inborn desire to do that which is right and just. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
All ascriptions of truth are arbitrary, so there are no standards of intellectual conscientiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Torricelli's Larger Point] Reference
In using Mr. Sumner as our special illustration of conscientiousness, it is not because we lack other examples. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Here, for instance, you may trace the conscientiousness (often morbid) which was so marked a feature in his later days. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
Those who scored highly on conscientiousness tended to follow the rules, to be reliable, well-organised and self-disciplined. From Wordnik.com. [Personality types affect women's approach to childbirth - study] Reference
Entrepreneurs low on conscientiousness will need to improve their planning -- or find the right partners to keep everything on track. From Wordnik.com. [Measure Your Entrepreneurial Instinct] Reference
For a moment, Darling was tempted to do as the captain told him; but the man's love of duty and conscientiousness was strong within him. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
It was said of a man who rose to a high position in the State through his conscientiousness and high principles, that he was at one time a shoeblack. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
It may be a sense of pleasure or feeling of self-approbation: or higher still, the idea of duty for its own sake, commonly called 'conscientiousness.'. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
Seated at a window which overlooked this sylvan aspect, modified if not fashioned by man, a young woman with seeming conscientiousness, told her beads. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
In commending one of them, he selects for special praise 'his old-fashioned conscientiousness about public work and his subordination of private comfort'. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
What made this the harder was that she had never taught from love of the work, though her fine intelligence and conscientiousness made her an excellent teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
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