Data Quote by George Orwell

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

— Wilhelm Stekel

“If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.”

— Edward Tufte

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.

— Jean Baudrillard

“Descriptive statistics exist to simplify, which always implies some loss of nuance or detail.”

— Charles Wheelan

“Statistics are no substitue for judgement.”

— Henry Clay

“The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment. But the present now is…

— Geneen Roth

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

— Koren Zailckas

“Today, fantasy is, for better or for worse, just another genre, a place in a bookshop to find books that, too often, remind one…

— Neil Gaiman

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants,…

— Stephen Leacock

“I only belive in statistics I doctored myself”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Aaron Levenstein

Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things.

— Ebbe Skovdahl