Quotes About Credibility

Sería largo enumerar ahora todos los rincones del universo que conozco y los acontecimientos fabulosos que he vivido en ellos y, lo sé por experiencia, habría más de uno que lo encontraría una pedantería o una falsedad, de modo que preferiría no dar crédito a mis palabras antes que dejarse cautivar por ellas. Pobres almas insípidas que no merecen que nada extraordinario les ocurra.

Samuel Smiles said, "Personalities itself is plainly a vehicle for self-advancement. Men who's acts are a direct variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight." Trust, formerly earned through actions, is now purchased through slight of hand and slight of words.

When people are telling the truth, they don't feel doubted, so they don't feel the need for additional support in the form of details. When people lie, however, even if what they say sounds credible to you, it doesn't sound credible to them, so they keep talking. Each

No one can call you a liar for sharing your personal experience. - Scott Davis

Why is it that when someone says "trust me", I always feel less inclined to do so?

You know the saying, right? The way you can tell a vendor is lying is when their lips are moving.

If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?

I have never lied about my relationship with Bill Clinton. The only proven liar, at this point, and the only admitted liar, is Bill Clinton not Gennifer Flowers, not Kathleen Willey, not Paula Jones and not Monica Lewinsky, at this point. He is the only proven liar.

I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental level does not think Christianity actually works. And just one Christian of this type turns off dozens from trying out Christianity for themselves.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

The . . . argument of the expert, that the man who is trained should be the man who is trusted, would be absolutely unanswerable if it were really true that the man who studied a thing and practiced it every day went on seeing more and more of its significance. But he does not. He goes on seeing less and less of its significance

Something about Linus made me feel at ease. You knew that he was sincere and whatever he told you wouldn't be a lie.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true

Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.

Not all persons would be equally believed, Demerzel. A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.

Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to be true, but everything had to sound true.

No es desagradable la ostentación que esas gentes hacían de sus creaciones? ¿Quién puede ser tan estúpido como para creer a una persona que ensalza su propio producto? ¿Acaso va a confesar sus defectos? ¿Retrocederá ante cualquier exageración?

I was very serious about journalism, even though colleagues from that time believe that I invented my reports. I didn't invent them, I merely exaggerated slightly.

If you're a coach, and you don't have trust with players, you've got no chance, and your credibility is zero. And that's why it's so important to tell them the truth. If you have something that you're upset about, tell them the truth. If they're doing something wrong, tell them the truth.

No one will lend at a negative interest rate; potential creditors will simply choose to hold cash, which pays zero nominal interest.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper.