Quotes About Credibility

our" reaction on the errors found in Mike Mann's work were not especially honest.

Why did the IPCC so quickly and uncritically accept the Mann et al hockey stick analysis when it first appeared? I cannot help but conclude that it's because they wanted to believe it.

the beauty of the climate-change circus is that you never need to ask "Who peer-reviews the peer-reviewers?" Mann peer-reviewed Jones, and Jones peer-reviewed Mann, and anyone who questioned their views got exiled to the unwarmed wastes of Siberia.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

People will continue to pay for quality. They will be less and less inclined, however, to pay for bullshit.

A liar has many points to his favour,—but he has this against him, that unless he devote more time to the management of his lies than life will generally allow, he cannot make them tally.

We English gentlemen hate the name of a lie, but how often do we find public men who believe each other's words?

What bird?" he asked. "Ah, that I cannot tell you. But this I will confess to you, that these birds which tell us news are seldom very credible, — and are often not very creditable, You must take a bird's word for what it may be worth. It is said that they have quarrelled. I daresay, if the truth were known, they are billing and cooing in each other's arms at this moment.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

The trouble with Goodreads is that they never authenticate these quotations of famous people.

Don't believe anything I've told you—merely because I said it.

O que você traz neste mundo não tem nenhuma importância - replicou meu companheiro com amargura. - A questão é o que os outros acreditam que você fez.

Do you think this wild idea might work?" "It's insane," growled Boaz. "Utter lunacy, too far-fetched to be credible. Of course it'll work.

I'm neither a woman, nor a mother who showers praises on babies. But if I tell you that the baby was an exception, take my word for it.

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

Craigengelt, you are either an honest fellow in right good earnest, and I scarce know how to believe that; or you are cleverer than I took you for, and I scarce know how to believe that either.

Today's readers can be roughly divided into two groups, those who accept the fantasy villains of childhood, as in the James Bond stories and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, and those who insist on credibility.

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. Almost always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.

Be as transparent as you can in your trade. The big thing in life is trust.

Most people are willing to promise you a lot. A few are those who can promise you a little, just as much as they can.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

You cannot buy trust, you have to earn it.

Just because I'm young, that doesn't mean I don't have a point.