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Quotes About Credibility

teachers and criminals and real-estate agents may lie, and politicians, and even C.I.A. analysts. But numbers don't.
~ Steven D. Levitt
mitigate and credible and credulous. What this means
~ Steven Pinker
The fact-checking site PolitiFact judged that an astonishing 69 percent of the public statements by Trump they checked were "Mostly False
~ Steven Pinker
Solzhenitsyn's writing utterly and finally demolished the intellectual credibility of communism, as ideology or society. He took an axe to the trunk of the tree whose bitter fruits had nourished him so poorly—and whose planting he had witnessed and supported
~ Jordan B. Peterson
el que se gana la credibilidad ahorra palabras.     Excelencia
~ Jorge Valdano
Atención porque cambiar de opinión debido a una nueva comprensión, y más si llega con gozo intelectual incluido, no es una muestra de debilidad ni supone una merma en la credibilidad del intelectual sino, más bien, lo contrario, una muestra de fuerza y una garantía de de credibilidad.
~ Jorge Wagensberg
The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.
~ Jose Iturbi
My... I'm not going to read that because it's only a lie
~ Jose Rizal
Nothing that isn't a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
~ Joseph Addison
You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.
~ Joseph E. Levine
afraid of Slander Sheet. A lie this outrageous, you take it seriously.
~ Joseph Finder
The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.
~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
The distance between knowing something to be true, and believing it, can be measured in less than the blink of an eye. One's credibility is as fragile as a powder-blue bird's egg. Once cracked, it is shattered irreparably and forevermore lies somewhere just beyond reach, one more body bag of bones on some media heap.
~ Joseph McMoneagle
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
~ Joseph Roux
Just because people are liars is no reason for us to be fools.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.
~ Ernst Junger
Al parecer se considera paradójico el que un guerrero hable de la paz. Frente a eso cabe decir que su firma es la única que otorga crédito a esa palabra. No en vano los antiguos hacían que a los tratados de paz asistiesen sus dioses nacionales de la guerra, representados por el sumo sacerdote.
~ Ernst Junger
The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, and to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented, and the characteristic issue, the crucial concern, is whether it will be credited or discredited.
~ Erving Goffman
I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
took several years of gaining perspective before I understood the wisdom of the CEO's words. There are three reasons he was right: • It's impossible to do everything yourself all the time. • If you manage it once, you raise unrealistic expectations from those around you. • Once you fail to meet expectations, it is very difficult to regain credibility.
~ Ethan M. Rasiel
Mr. Murray had no doubt about Miss Minton's honesty. It was her sanity he was not sure about.
~ Eva Ibbotson
If a journalist comes to you with a great story, one of the first questions you ask is how did you get it. How you got it is relevant to judging its accuracy and preparing yourself for any legal challenge.
~ Andrew Neil
Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
~ Harold S. Geneen