Statistics Quotes
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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. (Quote by - George Canning)
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. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The only things that really keep me going are statistics. (Quote by - Richard Hadlee)
Round numbers are always false. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. (Quote by - Fletcher Knebel)
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. (Quote by - Rex Stout)
Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. (Quote by - Joe Stalin)
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. (Quote by - George Gallup)
A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. (Quote by - M.J. Moroney)
I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that. (Quote by - Mike Schmidt)
There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most. (Quote by - Allan Border)
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches. (Quote by - W.I.E. Gates)
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture. (Quote by - H.G. Wells, The Undying Fire)
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfilment (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light. (Quote by - Storm P)
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to. Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle)
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. (Quote by - Mike Schmidt)
I don't think players care too much about stats and statistics... (Quote by - Ashley Cole)
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus. (Quote by - Laplace)
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. (Quote by - Laurence Peter)
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. (Quote by - George Gallup)
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
There are lies damn lies and statistics. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Burglars, judging by our statistics, define opportunity as an unoccupied, unlocked house stocked with portable television sets. (Quote by - Gerald Cvetko)
After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, "Lies - damned lies - and statistics," still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. (Quote by - Leonard Courtney)
Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. (Quote by - William W. Watt)
To tell you the truth, I've never weighed myself. When somebody asks me my statistics or whatever I honestly don't know. (Quote by - Helena Christensen)
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. (Quote by - Lewis Carroll)
A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. (Quote by - Mae West)
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. (Quote by - Robert Boynton)
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." (Quote by - W.A. Wallis)
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. (Quote by - Louis D. Brandeis)
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. (Quote by - G. O. Ashley)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Quote by - Laurence Peter)
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. (Quote by - Paul Erdos)
We are just statistics, born to consume resources. (Quote by - Horace)
