Statistics Quotes

What a minefield! Statistics, in the hands of the clever, can prove almost anything. Numbers don't lie, right? But interpreters do. It's a powerful tool for revealing truths, or skillfully hiding them behind flashy tables and charts. It all depends on who asks the question, and how.

Immerse yourself in these compelling quotes that reveal the secrets of numbers, data analysis, and how to use them wisely.

Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or w...
Quote by Vince Lombardi: While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past....
Quote by Ronald Reagan: We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was prob...
Quote by Steven Wright: Half the people you know are below average....
Quote by Thomas Sowell: Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen....
Quote by Mark Twain: Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the r...
Quote by Winston Churchill: Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself....
Quote by Thomas Sowell: The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation....
Quote by Winston Churchill: I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself...
Quote by Bill Gates: Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people,
Quote by Mark Twain: There are lies, damned lies and statistics....
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it i...
Quote by Gary Vaynerchuk: One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible ...
Quote by Winston Churchill: The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself....
Quote by Mark Twain: I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistic...
Quote by Thomas Sowell: Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlemen...
Quote by Steven Wright: 43.7 per cent of all statistics are made up on the spot....
Quote by Will Rogers: You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the one...
Quote by Mark Twain: Figures don't lie, but liars figure....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics....
Quote by Thomas Sowell: Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data....
Quote by Mark Twain: July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year p...
Quote by Mark Twain: There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians...
Quote by Joseph Stalin: One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic....
Quote by Thomas Sowell: You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, b...
Quote by Mark Twain: Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable....
Quote by John Lewis: President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive....
Quote by Winston Churchill: I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must lear...