Quotes About Credibility

People are more likely to accept your ideas if you tell them that Barack Obama said it first.

The next time someone lies to your face, tell them that they are full of Schiff.

Abraham Lincoln famously noted, it is possible to fool some individuals all the time and all individuals some of the time, but it's not feasible to fool all individuals all the time.

No sentient political party goes into an election with a leader who has a net approval rating of 40 percent. The takeover of the Labour Party by the far left turned it into a glorified protest movement, with cult trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible government.

I don't trust people with empty-stomach breath to tell me what taste is.

To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.

If the pope were caught on tape tomorrow worshiping Satan, the story would likely die within a day. It would be too implausible. Video or not, no one would believe it.

Now listen, Jack, will you? I am somewhat given to lying: my occasions require it from time to time. But I do not choose to have any man alive tell me of it.

Think of the firearms makers you wouldn't buy from, based on what you've "heard" about their product.

In my experience, honest people don't need to put their hand on a Bible to tell the truth, and with dishonest people, it makes no difference.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

Switzerland is one of the few countries in the world where a man's word is still his bond.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

ISHOULD PROBABLY thank the mainstream media. If it weren't for their abject failure to do their jobs, you'd have no idea who I was.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible.

Really good liars always work in something true to make the lie more plausible. - John Puller

The world may end later than the year 2060, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit. —Sir Isaac Newton

Men should be what they seem.

We are arrant knaves all, believe none of us.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.