Credible Quotes

• To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Truth, Honesty, Integrity

  Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.

  92 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

  John F. Kennedy

  Vietnam, Vietnam War, Problem

  1961 Attributed remark to journalist James Reston, following Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, Jun.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

  Cliff Stearns

  Goal, Safety, Privacy

  7 Copy quote

• All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Philosophy, Medicine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.278, Modern Library

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

  Pope Paul III

  Understanding, Desire, Littles

  21 Copy quote

• The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

  Mark Twain

  Reality, Differences, Needs

  8 Copy quote

• There is a danger when we give young people only a catalog of dos and don'ts. In these young minds, the gospel is not intellectually credible.

  Ravi Zacharias

  People, Giving, Mind

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Language, Propaganda

  8 Copy quote

• When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Littles, Happy Endings

  5 Copy quote

• Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.

  Mildred Blaxter

  Healing, Appropriate

  3 Copy quote

• We also know that the various faith-based institutions provide about 50 per cent of the health and education services in the poor communities; we also know that they have a large constituency including women and youth; they have outreach and networks and they are credible to their people. If we want to achieve the Millennium Development Foals by scaling up the responses of all the communities, do we ignore this large investment in people? Or do we engage in dialogue and in action?

  Thoraya Obaid

  People, Community, Foals

  5 Copy quote

• Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.

  John P. Kotter

  Communication, Heart, Listening To Others

  99 Copy quote

• Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.

  W. H. Auden

  Song, Clever, Stupid

  11 Copy quote

• If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Military, Chance, Threat

  7 Copy quote

• The more credible you are, the more confidence people place in you, thereby allowing you the privilege of influencing their lives.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Privilege

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

  Irving Greenberg

  Children, Burning, Made

  Irving Greenberg (1998). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.253, Jason Aronson, Incorporated

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

  Richard Baxter

  Teacher, Book, Choices

  "A Christian Directory: Or, a Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience Directing". Book by Richard Baxter, 1673.

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

  Max McKeown

  Senior, Thinking, Ideas

  6 Copy quote

• The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Discovery, Nuts, Community

  12 Copy quote

• Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

  Tam David-West

  Want, Election, Corruption

  4 Copy quote

• Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply too far-fetched to be credible. I realized that if I were to embrace Darwinism and its underlying premise of naturalism, I would have to believe that: 1. Nothing produces everything 2. Non-life produces life 3. Randomness produces fine-tuning 4. Chaos produces information 5. Unconsciousness produces consciousness 6. Non-reason produces reason....The central pillars of evolutionary theory quickly rotted away when exposed to scrutiny.

  Lee Strobel

  Life, Believe, Years

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God”, p.355, Harper Collins

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

  Van Jones

  Climate, Wrecks, Scientist

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump became seen as a credible businessperson with a real track record, even though that was at odds with reality.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Real, Odds, Track

  Source: www.pbs.org

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

  Manmohan Singh

  Safety, Poor, Social

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

  P. D. James

  People, Secret, Today

  FaceBook post by P.D. James from Sep 07, 2011

  27 Copy quote

  Show source