Top 43 Anecdotal Quotes
#1. Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.
Michael Shermer
#2. The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.
Lee H. Hamilton
#3. According to both scientific and anecdotal research, it is clear that homework should be the exception, not the rule. Even the most inventive or meaningful assignments still infringe on the time that belongs to families.
Vicki Abeles
#4. I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
Mary McCormack
#5. It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.
Ralph W. Moss
#6. Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.
Rob Thomas
#7. Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.
Katherine Dunn
#8. It is through color changes that we go forward ... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.
Wolf Kahn
#9. scaremongers - who unquestioningly champion anecdotal data, while meticulously examining every large, carefully conducted study on the same subject for any small chink that would permit them to dismiss it entirely.
Ben Goldacre
#10. Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it
Henry Mintzberg
#11. For what it's worth, in my experience astronomers are more likely than biologists to be believers. But several surveys, more scientific than my anecdotal experiences, have confirmed that in academic settings, the real atheists are to be found in English Literature departments.
Guy Consolmagno
#12. This whole notion that all African-Americans are not going to vote for Obama is not necessarily true. I believe a third would vote for me, based on my own anecdotal feedback. Not vote for me because I'm black but because of my policies.
Herman Cain
#13. Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.
Jan Morris
#14. Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child.
Jenny McCarthy
#15. I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror.
Glen Duncan
#16. Polls are inaccurate in my opinion, based upon anecdotal evidence, based upon people that I know.
Herman Cain
#17. I have anecdotal evidence in my business that MBAs tend to blow up in financial markets, as they are trained to simplify matters a couple of steps beyond their requirement. (I beg the MBA reader not to take offense; I am myself the unhappy holder of the degree.)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#18. What happened to me personally is only anecdotal evidence," Harry explained. "It doesn't carry the same weight as a replicated, peer-reviewed journal article about a controlled study with random assignment, many subjects, large effect sizes and strong statistical significance.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#19. If the young man ate candy, the wrangler says, that's probably what's kept him alive so long. Glucose is a natural antidote to cyanide poisoning. Based on anecdotal evidence, glucose binds with
the cyanide to produce less toxic compounds.
Chuck Palahniuk
#20. It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
Eric Gill
#21. The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial ... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art.
Clement Greenberg
#22. I am not sure what to make of my admittedly anecdotal observation that many of those who most ardently oppose the taking of embryonic life also seem to be more than usually enthusiastic about taking adult life.
Richard Dawkins
#23. There's a point where anecdotal evidence becomes truth
Temple Grandin
#24. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.
Richard Posner
#25. I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal.
Charles R. Morris
#26. Life after death. Sex after marriage. While claims are made for the existence of both, the sources are oftentimes unreliable and the evidence, at best, anecdotal.
J.D. Lexx
#27. The painter thinks in terms of form and color. The goal is not to be concerned with the reconstitution of an anecdotal fact, but with constitution of a pictorial fact.
Georges Braque
#28. Hardcovers will never completely disappear. They are delightful to hold; they feel weighty and substantial. But my anecdotal evidence suggests that the world is changing.
Christina Baker Kline
#29. I don't know the traffic regulations of every city I get to either, but I manage to drive through without being arrested.
Lloyd Mangrum
#30. The more boldly a man dares, the more richly his land bears
Yu Hua
#32. Life is full of opportunities although there are hurdles that needs to be overcome.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.
Dave McClure
#34. Life often is a bucket of water sitting on a farmer's porch. Our choice is in the drinking.
Harley King
#35. The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks
#36. Life is never what you expect it to be. Sex has more to do with salt than sweetness. The sky is white as often as it's blue.
Carolyn Parkhurst
#37. What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
J. B. Smoove
#38. I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Barry Humphries
#39. But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.
John Frusciante
#40. A cop? You married a bloody cop?"
"I married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that.
J.D. Robb
#42. We must take responsibility for ourselves, for who we become, for how we live each day.
Kitt Weagant
#43. To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman
