Statistics quotes

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◆ Statistics say that 1 in 4 people are insane, so take a look at your 3 best friends and if they are all OK, its you!

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◆ Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

- Evan Esar99

◆ Statistics show that many people watch our show from the bedroom. and people you ask into your bedroom have to be more interesting than those you ask into your living room. I kid you not!

- Jack Paar99

◆ Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

- Vin Scully99

◆ We are just statistics, born to consume resources.

- Horace99

◆ Statistics: the mathematical theory of ignorance.

- Morris Kline99

◆ Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

- Henry Clay99

◆ You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

- David Lloyd George99

◆ Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

- Jean Baudrillard99

◆ Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

- Alphonse Allais99

◆ Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

- Hilaire Belloc99

◆ Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.

- William W Watt99

◆ All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile.

- Chris Hart99

◆ Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

- Jorge Luis Borges99