Quotes About Credibility

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

Dobar je glumac onaj kome publika vjeruje da je iskren

Liars are always most disposed to swear.

Así va el mundo. Muchos adquieren opinión de doctos, no por lo que efectivamente saben, sino por el concepto que forma de ellos la ignorancia de los demás.

We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man

I never want to be in a place where no one would come forward to say to a judge that they have known me as righteous. A life well-lived, in some respects, needs witnesses

In order to believe someone, you need to trust them.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.

The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)

authority is no guarantee of truth, if authority is not tested.

Even as he took firm and reassuring command of the federal government, Johnson began to recast the civil rights struggle from a legal question to a ringing moral issue.* With a credibility that no northerner could claim, Johnson took his case for equal rights directly to the South.

What did Lincoln say about fooling people? "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.

You can't trust the internet.

The title 'Lord of All-Rus' did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kyivan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself 'Lord of all the Franks'.

Take it from me—he's got the goods.

To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.

It seems inevitable that people who can't read are going to lean more toward judging candidates on the way they look and sound than on what they claim they stand for. Even people who can read and are educated are apt to pay more attention to good looks and seductive lies than they should.

Look, Son of Anarchy, I appreciate the nice guy offer, but how do I even know you're legit?

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience.

Credibility requires sincerity.

Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

The public very properly shun all whose integrity is doubted. No matter how polite and pleasant and accommodating a man may be, none of us dare to deal with him if we suspect "false weights and measures.