Quotes About Credibility

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything

I could not really complain, because he had only given me his word of honor as security; I ought to have required of him something substantial.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

if you say the truth you don't have to remember anything

It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

I do not wish to hear about the moon from someone who has not been there.

It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

Lack of the power to discriminate is no less evident in the sciences, namely in the tenacious life of false and refuted theories. Once come into general credit, they continue to defy truth for centuries. - On Various Subjects

If there is a credo in practical medicine, it is that the important thing is to be sensible.

Do you suppose that he would have spoken if he had been alive? And do you suppose that if any of the dead husbands came back they would be believed?

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.

I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

Believe me there's no spiteful stupidity, no horror, no absurd story that one can't get the idle-minded folk of a great city to swallow if one goes the right way about it—

Tapi kita selalu bisa mempertanyakan kompetensi orang yang melakukan pengamatan.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband

Meanwhile 1st April to lie as if they were honest throughout the year.

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Once dishonesty is introduced, distrust becomes the hallmark of future dealings or associations.

News used to hold itself to a higher plane, and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.