Reputation vs. Character

Reputation is seeming; character is being.

Reputation is manufactured; character is grown.

Reputation is your photograph; character is your face.

Reputation is what men say you are; character is what God knows you are.

Reputation is what you need to get a job; character is what you need to keep it.

Reputation is what comes over you from without; character is what rises up within.

Reputation is what you have when you come to town; character is what you have when you go away.

Reputation is what is chiseled on your tombstone;
character is what the angels say about you before the throne of God.

- Quote by Robert Stuart MacArthur, Quick Truths in Quaint Texts

Few Words

"Wisdom often goes with fewer words. Talk less but say more."

- Unknown

When to be Silent

"Wise men are not always silent, but know when to be."

- Unknown

Temple of Wisdom

“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

- Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge and Wisdom

"To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

- Charles H. Spurgeon