Quotes About Credibility

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

I don't give the same credibility to my being that other people give to theirs. Everything feels acted.

A skeptical world judges the truth of what we say by the proof of how we live. Today's activists may be the best evangelists.

One reason the broader world does not look to Christianity for guidance is that we Christians have not spoken with a credible voice.

We have to be more royal than royalty itself or nobody will believe us.

The clearest argument against Plato's authorship is probably that Plato never wrote a work whose interpretation was as simple and straightforward as that of Alcibiades.

No matter at all, I replied; for the point is not who said the words, but whether they are true or not.

Never trust what you see on Goodreads.

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A Piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust

You can only believe so many lies before becoming one of them.

The Strand proudly proclaims itself as home to eighteen miles of books. I have no idea how this is calculated. Does one stack all the books on top of each other to get the eighteen miles? Or do you put them end to end, to create a bridge between Manhattan and, say, Short Hills, New Jersey, eighteen miles away? Were there eighteen miles of shelves? No one knew. We all just took the bookstore at its word, because if you couldn't trust a bookstore, what could you trust? Whatever

man who has one pet monkey might be viewed as charmingly eccentric. But a man who has made his home into a monkey house, with scores of chattering chimpanzees capering through the rooms, will have lost credibility with the mental-health authorities.

No one believing you is a symptom of telling the truth.

Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again.

Confidence you haven't earned always has the brightest glow.

well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes.

Life among academics had taught me that a well-expressed opinion is usually better than a badly expressed fact, so far as professional advancement goes. A

You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it.

The authenticity thing has never been an issue for me.

I think people can read authenticity and they know when you're involved and when you're just slapping your name on something.

It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject.

When you write an autobiography, it has to be authentic.

I've learned with Donald Trump - take him at his word.