Statistics Quotes

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

~ Daniel Libeskind

We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.

~ Evan Davis

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

~ Josefina Vazquez Mota

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

~ George Canning

I thought the divorce statistics would never apply to me. I was beyond heartbroken when they did. But I got up and got on with it. I also kept my belief in marriage.

~ Jennifer Garner

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

~ Harry Reasoner

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

~ Amity Shlaes

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

~ Samantha Power

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

~ Günter Grass