(514 quotes found)
“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
“I can prove anything by statistics except the truth”
George Canning
“Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
Aaron Levenstein
“There are Five kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, Politicians quoting statistics, and Novelists quoting Politicians on Statistics”
Stephen K Tagg
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”
Ernest Rutherford
“To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose”
Florence Nightingale
“He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - for support rather than illumination”
Andrew Lang
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.”
Homer Simpson
“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
