Quotes About Credibility

If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Even the boy who cried wolf was right about the wolf once.

Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it's a villain.

Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!

I sense that Chief Justice Kennedy has personally concluded taht the Crown has proven its case, that Craig is a credible witness, and that James is guilty of Murder 2...He doesn't say for instance, that 'Craig Landry has provided you with his account of what happened.' Instead he says, 'Craig Landry has told you what happened to Phillip Boudreau.

Paradigms can be asked to show their worth, an some of them do not stand up.

The Night Times has prided itself throughout its long history in telling the truth, the whole truth, and as much gossip as it could get away with.

A lie get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.

Your reputation is the most important thing you'll never have. Not clothes, nor money, not the big cars you may drive. If your reputation is good, you can achieve anything you want in the world.

It is hard to believe a man when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.:

We live in a world where everything tends to get oversold, then all too often under-delivers. I'd prefer to be known for the opposite.

Many skeptics, it is true, are inclined to dismiss the whole procedure [chart reading] as akin to astrology or necromancy; but the sheer weight of its importance in Wall Street requires that its pretensions be examined with some degree of care.

Considering how calamitously wrong the experts have been on the stock market, why should we believe them now? That's not what the intelligent investor would do.

A man without honour has no reputation

A man without honor has no reputation

Perfect rationality consists, not in believing what is true, but in attaching to every proposition a degree of belief corresponding to its degree of credibility.

most holders of authority were bigoted, illogical and not to be taken seriously. I

The trouble, in fact, is a difficult one to deal with, since it is inflamed alike by sympathy and by lack of sympathy. The person inclined to persecution mania, when he finds a hard-luck story believed, will embellish it until he reaches the frontier of credibility; when, on the other hand, he finds it disbelieved, he has merely another example of the peculiar hard-heartedness of mankind towards himself.

You can never take your reputation back. There really is nothing as powerful as a good reputation.

You can't buy a good reputation; you must earn it.

That's what I'd like to think that my reputation is - being honest.