Quotes about Reliability

One of the best ways to probe whether you can trust the advice that a theory is offering you is to look for anomalies—something that the theory cannot explain

Be truthful, one would say, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

we all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

The problem you had wished to propose to me was one which I could not have solved; for I know nothing of the facts. I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. I feel a much greater interest in knowing what passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing.

When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

When promises are verified, God's truth is magnified.

When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.