Quotes About Credibility

And I never believe a man who says he never lies. A man always assumes that others are as virtuous as himself, said Taleswapper.

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

the point of fake news isn't just to make it so that no one can tell what's true, it's to make it so that no one cares anymore, so that when you try to get all your friends to go out and march about something that they should already be thinking about, they're all like, 'Eh, is that even real?' Your enemies don't need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.

Like the boy who cried wolf, or the football coach whose pep talks wear thin, the pope or president who turns every cause into a holy one, every enemy into a Hitler, every conflict into a genocide, may soon find his audience rolling its eyes and sinking into the very cynicism he hopes to surmount.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.

He who trust little should himself be little trusted.

Somebody told me when I first got in this business that people believe what they read until somebody prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.

People believe what they read until someone prints something that contradicts it. Then they believe both.

In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.

If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

Remember that reputation and integrity are your most valuable assets—and can be lost in a heartbeat.

Own your work and compound credibility.

One cannot always approach truth through reason; it confines us to a geometric cast of thought that calls for logic and credibility. We see the dead in our dreams and accept them as living, knowing at the same time they are dead. And although this dream mind is without reason, has it not its own credibility?

It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.

A female war correspondent so popular that she had some credibility in saying she controlled half of her newspaper's circulation approached General Winfield Scott during the Mexican War with information that could help him. He was unwilling to get help from someone in petticoats.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Great brands, however, are authentic. They have endured because people have learned they are credible and have come to trust those brands to be what they say they are; great brands have integrity. What they say is integrated—integrated and integrity are related expressions—with what they do. No one responds to our efforts to be other than who we are. They respond to the good but bad, excellent but flawed person across the table from them.

As we can see, when people realized that a spell had been cast upon them and that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh's magicians lost all credibility. In the present day too, unless those who, under the influence of a similar spell, believe in these ridiculous claims under their scientific disguise and spend their lives defending them, abandon their superstitious beliefs, they also will be humiliated when the full truth emerges and the spell is broken.

El impacto de la mejor historia siempre se rebaja cuando el narrador carece de credibilidad.

We take this for granted in America today: a democracy in which the first test of credibility is not votes, or broad public support, but money.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.