Quotes About Credibility

People usually find out when you lie to them.

No amount of denials, protestations, or defenses seemed to make any difference, in what is called the 'court' of public opinion.

Never trust a source 100 percent. Or even ninety. Okay, 75 percent, tops.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Verlass dich nie auf die Ehrhaftigkeit eines anderen!

Por más querido, amable, cordial y ecuánime que sea un sujeto, si en una reunión del Opus Dei apoya públicamente las relaciones prematrimoniales, perderá de inmediato el "don de gentes", además de sus credenciales. Entonces, como los humanos somos susceptibles de ofendernos con facilidad, al menos en cuestiones de principios, la honestidad comunicativa creará incomodidad, así se utilice en pequeñas dosis.

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Tell that to the marines—the sailors won't believe it.

I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere author's name, without any indication of the work of that author in which the alleged quotation may be found. Let us have accurate quotations and exact references, wherever such are to be found. A quotation without a reference is like a geological specimen of unknown locality.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you will do things differently.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently.

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If you care about being thought credible and intelligent, do not use complex language where simpler language will do. My

we pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliability

People voted for someone who looked strong and decisive without any other reason to believe that he was.

In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility

System noise is inconsistency, and inconsistency damages the credibility of the system.

poor evidence can make a very good story.

Ad hominem: An abbreviation for argumentum ad hominem, meaning an argument against an idea or statement based on the character of the person who authored it. It is sometimes used to discredit a philosophy of life proclaimed by someone who does not live up to it himself, as in, "He talks the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk, so I'm not listening to his advice.

Because men who tell one lie usually tell others. - Gabriel Allon