Quotes for All
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Global warming is not a threat. It’s not a real threat. It’s not a credible threat. It’s not an imminent threat. ISIS is. Eric Bolling
I offer something very different from the lifelong career politicians who have worked their way up to run for higher office or those who can parachute in with checks for \$5 million or \$10 million, and that seems to be the definition of credible or legitimate. I’m rejecting that premise. Elizabeth Emken
The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had … Read more
To be credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that. … Read more
I’ve talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly…. The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can’t … Read more
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is … Read more