"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
More by Mark Twain
“Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.”
“To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction.”
“I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.”
More on Truth
“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
“To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.”