One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind. (1:313)
Northrop Frye
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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 incredible to other men.
Frederick William Robertson
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.
Edward R. Murrow
All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet.
Carl Jung
Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
John le Carre
The difference between truth and fiction is that the latter must always be credible in order to work.
Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens
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