Quotes About Credibility

The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.

I'm not an expert on journalistic standards. I want to be clear on that.

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

An honest man is respected by all parties.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

Only men of character are trusted.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.

You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

What I cannot understand about the Russian is the way he will lie when he knows perfectly well that you know he is lying.