Quotes About Credibility

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.

For the journalist, anything probable is gospel truth.

If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth.

From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

I knew enough about adults to know that if did tell them what had happened, I would not be believed. Adults rarely seemed to believe me when I told the truth anyway.

...the indispensable requirement for a good newspaperman - as eager to tell a lie as the truth.

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

If it comes from Tom Hauser, it's the truth.

Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

CIf you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

Sometimes, how a person answers a question is more important than what they actually say.

Trust comes through honesty.

I lie about lying, which means I can lie

If you're as good as your word, words should be good enough.

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...