Statistics Quotes

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Mark Twain

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain

Stubborn, Facts, Pliable

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

Show, Few, Survive

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw

Person, Truly, Moved

Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
Zig Ziglar

Business, Complain, Excited

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown

Best, Friends, Suffering

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Lies, Three, Kinds

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.
George Canning

Truth, Except, Prove

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully

Drunk, Used, Support

We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace

Born, Resources, Consume

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
Marilyn vos Savant

Able, Used, Support

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
Temple Grandin

Music, Sports, Bad

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Dennis Prager

Life, Love, Friendship

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine

Cannot, Hungry, Feed

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.
Josefina Vazquez Mota

Truth, Two, Making

I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
Lady Gaga

Cool, Working, Studying

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang

Rather, Support, Drunken

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Live, Long

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar

Science, Facts, Unreliable

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
David Lloyd George

Cannot, Hungry, Feed

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy, Abuse

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
Jean Baudrillard

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Ernest Rutherford

Done, Needs, Experiment

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor

School, Try, Rather

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.
Rex Stout

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel

Doubt, Smoking, Beyond

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.
Jennifer Garner

Marriage, Thought, Divorce

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.
Daniel Libeskind

Life, Experience, Complex

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
Stephen Leacock

Times, Lies, Fall

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
Evan Davis

Love, Finance, Obviously

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