Quotes
Quotes about Statistics
Statistics are used as a drunk uses lampposts--for support, not illumination.
Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
43% of all statistics are worthless.
You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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.
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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.
Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
