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Letter "R" » repute
«If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public.»
Author: Isocrates
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
engaged, fulfill, profession, promises, public education, repute, reputed
«The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods»
Author: Thorstein Veblen
(Economist)
| Keywords:
conspicuous, conspicuous consumption, consumption, gaining, pecuniary, repute, reputed, retaining
«Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| Keywords:
combination, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, drunkards, lecherous, liars, miserly, repute, reputed, sinners, weaknesses
«Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things»
«But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Mathematics,
Science
| Keywords:
exact, natural science, offers, repute, reputed, sciences
«Character is a stamp of good repute on a person.»
«To attain salvation,tread on the path of progress and be a man of good repute.»
«A bad wound may be cured, bad repute kills»
Author: Spanish Proverb
| Keywords:
bad, cured, curing, into the wind, kills, may, repute, reputed, The Killing, winded, wound, wounding, wound up
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