“If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.” IfsMenTryingWellsFeltKnowingStupidityReputationMake SensePolitenessScotchMisplacedReticence Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.” IfsMenFeelsHeartWorstTasteFameLaborRewardsPossessionReputationFrivolous Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.” MenWorldMayArtCommonAttentionQualityImagineFameProjectsEvery ManReputationMortalsHopelessImagine ThatCompelledHerdsPretension Author:Samuel Johnson