Quotes of Credible - somelinesforyou

“ Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. ”

- Henry Ford

“ To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful. ”

- Hellmut Walters

“ To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ”

- Judith Butler

“ This report is obviously very significant. It finds probable cause to believe that the assassination could not have been undertaken without the knowledge of senior figures in Syrian intelligence. ”

- John Bolton

“ If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable… we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar. ”

- John Henry Cardinal Newman

“ When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable. ”

- Rene Descartes

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

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. ”

- Richard Dawkins

“ To be persuasive, one must be believable.To be believable, we must be credible.To be credible, we must be truthful. ”

- Edward R. Murrow

“ Of that there is no manner of doubt - No probable, possible shadow of doubt - No possible doubt whatever. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive. ”

- Princess Margaret

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

- Joseph Wood Krutch

“ Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. ”

- Richard Dawkins

“ I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. ”

- David Hume

“ A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought. ”

- Anais Nin

“ All imaginable futures are not equally possible. ”

- Kevin Kelly

“ The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. ”

- Edward Bond

“ I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either. ”

- Thomas Perry

“ A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present. ”

- Moses MendeLssohn

“ I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. ”

- Antonia Fraser

“ Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world. ”

- John Ashcroft

“ There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people. ”

- Hillary Clinton

“ Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems — but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible. ”

- Salman Rushdie

“ Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals. ”

- Craig Bruce
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