Quotes About Credibility

It's not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath

Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

Every tale is not to be believed.

Then one day there really was a wolf, but when the boy shouted they didn't believe him.

The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

No one believes a liar even when he tells the truth

always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying

He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn't really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.

It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.

People take you at your own valuation.

Cuántas veces no habré oído decir a una mujer inteligente a más no poder: "Edgardo dice...", como quien cita a una autoridad incontrovertible. Y eso cuando todo el mundo sabe que Edgardo es un perfecto idiota.

People hear what we say but they see what we do. And seeing is believing.

There's no such thing as bragging. You're either lying or telling the truth.

According to "Clement," when the Christians talked about loving your enemies, their neighbors had been interested. But when they found that the Christians didn't do what they said, they dismissed Christianity as "a myth and a delusion." From Clement's perspective, Christians had to embody the message if the churches were to grow.

when people knock on your door, credibility is assumed and fees are whatever you say they are.

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.

If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say 'Hey, who else has said them,' I can come up with the list in five minutes.

If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!

When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.

In a world where distrust of Wall Street has never been higher, we're holding ourselves to a different standard. We also know that if we don't stay really genuine to that, it's very easy for this to sound incredibly disingenuous.

It's CNN's bigger problem that CNN wants to deny reality. I, too, used to drink the Kool-Aid that it was a top journalism operation that reports without bias. Now that I'm outside the walls of traditional media, I know there is no such thing.