Statistics Quotes

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Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself. — Mark Twain
I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself — Winston Churchill
Between grief and nothing, I will take grief. — William Faulkner
For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity… — Wendell Berry
To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its… — Carlos Castaneda
Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are… — Tom Robbins
They can print statistics and count the populations in hundreds of thousands, but to each man a city consists of no more than a few… — Graham Greene
A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace. — Confucius
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not… — Flannery O'Connor
You know my methods. Apply them. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I bathe in statistics. — Mitt Romney
In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my… — Richard Branson
Luck is statistics taken personally. — Penn Jillette
There are some women out there who are just going to look better with a mustache: that's statistics. — Caitlin Moran
The plural of anecdote is not data. — Marc Bekoff
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character… — P.J. O'Rourke
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. — Evan Esar
Medical statistics are a little bit like a bikini: what they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. — Unknown Author
I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who… — Logan Pearsall Smith
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… — Winston Churchill

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