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Quotes About Credibility

Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export.
~ Lyor Cohen
If you are a journalist, check and double-check your sources. Don't just swallow what politicians tell you.
~ Katharine Gun
Journalists who swallow the subject's account whole and publish it are not journalists but publicists.
~ Janet Malcolm
Liars are always most disposed to swear.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
~ Shia LaBeouf
I'd lied many times: to bolster my credentials, to elicit sympathy, to make myself appear less ordinary.
~ Michael Finkel
The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.
~ Leopoldo Lopez
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other, but it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
~ Rebecca West
It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once.
~ Rene Descartes
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~ Rene Descartes
Testimony should be treated as reliable until proved otherwise. "First, trust the word of others, then doubt if there are good reasons for doing so.
~ Richard Bauckham
SURFACE. The license of invention some people take is monstrous indeed. MARIA. 'Tis so but in my opinion, those who report such things are equally culpable.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
And although he was in no way the first to use patronage and election funds for partisan purposes—a cherished and well-embedded Canadian tradition (which still thrives)—Macdonald gave the practice credibility and durability by his masterful exercise of it. That's a shoddy legacy for the father of a country to leave behind.
~ Richard Gwyn
La cualidad esencial para el liderazgo no es la perfección, sino la credibilidad.
~ Rick Warren
The only group large enough to handle, the world's biggest, problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.
~ Rick Warren
He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, 'The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients.' Arty used to just keep me in stitches. Eleven years old he was then.
~ Katherine Dunn
Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.
~ Katherine Paterson
There seems to be something magical about printer's ink. Once people read a story in a newspaper, most of them believe that story is true, even if it's retracted.
~ Kathryn Kenny
En la intimidad los rusos comentaban que la única página creíble del periódico era la de la programación televisiva y radiofónica. —No
~ Ken Follett
A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.
~ Aristotle
The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.
~ Rebecca West
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
~ William Penn
And blanket skepticism can lead one as far astray as blanket credibility can.
~ William Poundstone
My father taught me that reputation, not money, was the most important thing in the world.
~ William Rosenberg