Reputation Quotes - Page 21

• Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Reflection, Body, Pleasure

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• We've learned from experience that the truth will out. Other experimenters will repeat your experiment and find out whether you were wrong or right. Nature's phenomena will agree or they'll disagree with your theory. And, although you may gain some temporary fame and excitement, you will not gain a good reputation as a scientist if you haven't tried to be very careful in this kind of work. And it's this type of integrity, this kind of care not to fool yourself, that is missing to a large extent in much of the research in Cargo Cult Science.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Integrity, Missing, Research

  "Cargo Cult Science". Richard P. Feynman's Caltech commencement address (1974), as quoted in "'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!': Adventures of a Curious Character" edited by Ralph Leighton (p. 342), calteches.library.caltech.edu. 1985.

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• What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

  Edmund White

  Beautiful, Book, Views

  Edmund White, David Bergman (1995). “The Burning Library: Essays”, Vintage

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• The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

  Tacitus

  Evil, Office, Deeds

  "Annales" (AD 117), III. 65,

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• For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

  Laurence Housman

  Brother, Benefits, Half

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• It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

  James Payn

  Risk, Stories, Action

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.

  William Aitken

  Gaps, Chance, Bigger

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• If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.

  Jennifer Lee

  Want, Nicknames, Ifs

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• A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

  Robert Ruark

  Honesty, Men, Errors

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• The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Voice, Conscience

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• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

  David Douglass

  Experts, Use, Fields

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• Reputation is generally proof of how little one knows about a person.

  Wes Fesler

  Littles, Proof, Persons

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• Though the boot may fit the foot, one can rarely stand in the tread of his own reputation.

  Wes Fesler

  Feet, Boots, May

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• How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Math, Science

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• A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

  Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

  Math, Numbers, Proof

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• So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, Sanctity, Incapacity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.

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• The Advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil. It is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst. A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

  Norbert Wiener

  Success, Math, Games

  "Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth". Book by Norbert Wiener, 1964.

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• Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.

  Sidney Howard

  People, Ruins, Drink

  Sidney Coe Howard (1980). “GWTW, the screenplay”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  Sallust

  Law, Bravery, Victory

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years.

  Wietse Venema

  Respect, Years, Two

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• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

  C. L. R. James

  Movement, Articles, International

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• A good reputation is better than fame.

  Louis Dudek

  Fame, Good Reputation

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• Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.

  Ivan Misner

  Jobs, Powerful, People

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• The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

  H. G. Wells

  Eggs, Nurse, People

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

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