Statistics Quotes

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Benjamin Disraeli)
I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. View quote
George Canning
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. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose. View quote
Florence Nightingale
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. View quote
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. View quote
Mark Twain
Democracy is an abuse of statistics. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. View quote
Heinrich Heine
An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. View quote
Andrew Lang
We are just statistics, born to consume resources. (Horace)
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. View quote
Lars Peter Hansen
For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. View quote
Kim Campbell
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination. View quote
Vin Scully
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. View quote
Alphonse Allais
In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. View quote
Stephen Leacock
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. View quote
Ernest Rutherford
He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination. View quote
Romano Prodi
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. View quote
Christopher McDougall
We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
People with fertility problems are not alone. It is a very very common problem for couples today. I've seen statistics that are just staggering. (Michael Zaslow)
It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way; and we grasp more fiercely at research, statistics, and technical aids in sex when we have lost the values and meaning of love. View quote
Rollo May
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget-especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself-that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics. View quote
Liza Minnelli
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so. View quote
Aleister Crowley