Statistics Quotes

There are three kinds of lies lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Evan Esa

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

Stanley Marcus

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Wallace Irwin

Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.

Mark Twain

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

Sir Winston Churchill

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts - - For support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

Aaron Levenstein

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

Sir Winston Churchill

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Mark Twain