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Quotes About Credibility

You can't cheat an honest man.
~ W. C. Fields
There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
~ Benjamin Jowett
The truth will set you free: believability will give you credibility.
~ Garrison Wynn
All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.
~ Aristotle
Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.
~ Scott Peterson
I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you.
~ Agatha Christie
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you're telling the truth, even if what you're saying is total crap.
~ Richard Belzer
I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.
~ George W. Romney
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Truth has to be credible or it makes as much trouble as any lie!
~ Sidney Howard
It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.
~ Mark Twain
A big lie is more plausible than truth.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
~ Gary Hamel
In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.
~ Dan Mazer
Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
~ Stephen Covey
How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.
~ Annie Leonard
I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
~ Benjamin Carson
Half truths were a wonderful way to inspire credibility.
~ David Baldacci
A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.
~ David Morrell
The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.
~ Deacon Jones
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
~ George Bernard Shaw