Country Quote by Martha Gellhorn

The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods…

— Darrell Huff

It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no…

— Hilaire Belloc

Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political…

— Adolphe Quetelet

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

— Vince Lombardi

It's the media who love statistics.

— Virgil van Dijk

Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie.

— George W. Buck

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

— Nate Silver

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

— Koren Zailckas

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

— Aaron Levenstein

Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.

— Wilhelm Stekel

“The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality.…

— C.G. Jung

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

— Rex Stout