Quotes About Credibility

If you don't want to be foolish, don't try to fool anyone.

You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

The United States' credibility is at an all-time low. So, this war is against the interest of the Untied States.

It's awfully hard to convey a sense of credibility to allies when you [the Congress] voted for the war and then you declared: Wrong war, wrong place, wrong time.

The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

There are pragmatic as well as moral grounds for the United States to follow Germany's lead [in dealing with it's past human rights crimes]. American media may have largely ignored the reasons we decided to destroy Hiroshima or oust the democratically elected governments in Iran or the Congo. Other nations' media has not. Few Americans are quite aware of how little credibility we retain in other parts of the world.

I wanted to believe what I was learning about Harry, but the more I heard, the more his life seemed like a series of tall tales, conjured scenes full of wishful thinking. I came to believe that it was quite unlikely that Burt Reynolds had ever met Harry Peak at all.

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

In modern times, if a man quotes a Moses or a Buddha or a Christ, he is laughed at; but let him give the name of a Huxley, a Tyndall, or a Darwin, and it is swallowed without salt.

Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.

What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun.

I think lying is a bad idea. Sooner or later, someone's going to catch you.

It's easy to get by on a facade of fancy style, but sooner or later, people are going to see through it. I'm trying to be as honest as possible.

Celebrity and actor are two completely different professions, and I don't believe that they mix if you want to maintain any sort of credibility.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

Sometimes, anonymous sources, when merely stating opinions or running a smear campaign, are certainly cowards.

If you are a reliable, honest journalist, sources will open up and trust you and share good information.

There's no credibility in anonymous sources.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.