Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.

“The last major risk to getting good facts is our own prejudices. While we may not always test a solution based on our opinions…

— Nat Greene

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

— Charles Kettering

“You have a reputation. If enough people tell stories about you, we call it fame; but even if it’s just your neighbors, the people…

— Anonymous

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

— Douglas William Jerrold

There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.

— Jeffrey Deitch

“It's a matter of dishonour, and when it gets out, which it's bound to, this will be the one act you'll be remembered for.…

— Ian McEwan

Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them

— Frank Tyger

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

— Nate Silver

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves…

— Aristotle Onassis

I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations.

— John Balance

It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best…

— Jose Saramago

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

— Felix Dennis

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going,…

— Martin Freeman

Budgets can make or break reputations and governments.

— Priti Patel

“What saves doctors' reputations is the fact that many illnesses are benign and that people can go on living with a large number of…

— Gabriel Chevallier