Statistics Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

28 Statistics Quotes
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“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
Aaron Levenstein Quotes
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
“There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up”
Rex Stout Quotes
“Statistics are no substitute for judgment”
Henry Clay Quotes
“Statistics are people with the tears wiped from their eyes”
Hilaire Belloc Quotes
“Statisticians probably do it”
Dizzy Dean Quotes
“Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.”
Evan Esar Quotes
“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.”
Lewis Carroll Quotes
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
Fletcher Knebel Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.”
Storm P Quotes
“Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.”
G. O. Ashley Quotes
“Round numbers are always false.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
“There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up, and the kind you make up.”
Rex Stout Quotes
“Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.”
Robert Boynton Quotes
“Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.”
George Gallup Quotes
“Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.”
G. O. Ashley Quotes
“Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
Fletcher Knebel Quotes
“One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....”
Rita Mae Brown Quotes
“I could prove God statistically.”
Aaron Levenstein Quotes
“The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.”
Jean Baudrillard Quotes
“A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Joseph Stalin Quotes
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.”
Paul Erdos Quotes
“If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.”
Laurence Peter Quotes