Drunkards Quote by David Ogilvy

I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on than for…

— Alfred E. Perlman

“Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support than illumination.”

— Randy Bartlett

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they…

— David Ogilvy

“One should use information and logic as a drunkard would use a lamp post – only for support, not for illumination.”

— Sadhguru

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

— Romano Prodi

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

— Vin Scully

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

— Andrew Lang

It's so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.

— Lea Michele

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as the lighthouse…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Light has a way of keeping people honest.

— Michelle Singletary

There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with light.

— Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov