Credibility Quotes

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

To be persuasive we must be believable. To be believable, we must be truthful.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

We must combat misinformation that is being spread.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.

Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; but he that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.

Your word is your honor. If you say you're going to do something, then you need to do it.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are intentionally bad.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

No trusting without testing

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

How easy is it to make people believe a lie, and hard it is to undo that work again!

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw in character.