Claud Cockburn Quotes

Never believe anything until it has officially been denied.

Never believe anything until it's officially denied.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

People never believe you.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

I personally never trusted the audience.

When you don't trust people all of the sudden you stop trusting anything.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

Since the Drive-Bys are involved, I'm sorry, folks, I just never, ever do I accept anything, I don't care what. If it's football, if it's the space program, if it's anything, I automatically do not believe it.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

I am unlikely to trust a sentence that comes easily.

Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

I lack trust in others.

You can't trust very many people.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.