Quotes About Credibility

At the root of all this is an inability among laypeople to understand that experts being wrong on occasion about certain issues is not the same thing as experts being wrong consistently on everything. The fact of the matter is that experts are more often right than wrong, especially on essential matters of fact. And yet the public constantly searches for the loopholes in expert knowledge that will allow them to disregard all expert advice they don't like. In

There aren't enough pages in this or any other book to catalog the amount of bad information on the Internet. Miracle cures, conspiracy theories, faked documents, misattributed quotes—all of these and more are the crabgrass and weeds that have rapidly overgrown a global garden of knowledge. The healthier but less sturdy grasses and flowers don't stand a chance.

The world is an astonishing place, and the idea that we have in our possession the basic tools needed to understand it is no more credible now than it was in Aristotle's day.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything.

False testimony is always good against itself.

Instead of this, a small number of persons, not more than eight or nine, are introduced as proxies for the whole world, to say they saw it, and all the rest of the world are called upon to believe it.

Now I'd believe Osama bin Laden over you, Devon.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

That's the big thing - having the other guys' respect in the locker room. You can't come in with no respect and try to own the place.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

I spent the majority of my adult life in a business where the object is to make people believe that you believe what you say. I was good at that, right?

When I first started out, I really felt like, 'I'm a journalist; I will be respected as a neutral observer.' And I don't feel like that holds true anymore. I don't think people respect journalists the same way they once did.

When you are seeing somebody, then obviously it's a commitment. And if you don't want to commit, then don't be in a relationship. Every relationship deserves a certain credibility and respectability. For me, it's always been like that.

A wise man's words are rarely questioned," he counselled gently. "Therefore you must be very careful whom you call wise.

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult.

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.

Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it.

Lack of truthfulness doesn't weaken a story if you can get enough people to believe the lie.

A person is what he says and does; that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured.