Quotes About Credibility

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.

What is most troubling about Mr. Putin's aggression in Crimea is that it reflects a growing disregard for America's credibility in the world. That has emboldened other aggressive actors - from Chinese nationalists to Al Qaeda terrorists and Iranian theocrats.

Al Jazeera has abandoned even the semblance of a credible media outlet, and it broadcasts - both within Gaza and outside it, to the world - anti-Semitic incitement, lies, provocation, and encouragement to terrorists.

It only serves to show what sort of person a man must be who can't even get testimonials. No, no; if a man brings references, it proves nothing; but if he can't, it proves a great deal.

All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.

I give every person about me credit for the best intentions & honesty of purpose until they prove themselves unworthy of my confidence. I applied

If your marketing is good but your product is bad, then that means your marketing is bad, too.

Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.

The same goes for authority: looking like the real thing may have more impact than actually being it.

and straightforward language. The researchers concluded that when the witness spoke simply the jurors could evaluate his argument on its merits. But when he was unintelligible, they had to resort to the mental shortcut of accepting his title and reputation in lieu of comprehensible facts. And so, another paradox: experts are sometimes most convincing when we don't understand what they're talking about.

If the public doubts that objective journalism is possible, on what basis can journalists claim professional status?

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. Let's start again.

I didn't trust you because I liked you. I trusted you because you earned it." -Becky

The truth was no way to make a good first impression.

reputatia este ceea ce stiu altii despre tine, onoarea este ceea ce stii tu despre tine.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. (Thomas Jefferson)

businessmen respected them for their honest dealings.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?