How To Lie With Statistics Quotes

#1. The object of knowledge is what exists and its function to know about reality.

Plato

#2. It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds ... that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

Hilaire Belloc

#3. Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important ... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of nature which involve time.

Sophus Lie

#4. Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.

Rudolf Virchow

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

George W. Buck

#6. It is easy to lie with statistics; it is easier to lie without them.

Frederick Mosteller

#7. To do action without cuts is infinitely more exciting.

Cary Fukunaga

#8. I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

Takeru Kobayashi

#9. the Triple Win": Money, Meaning, and Mobility.

Julia Pimsleur

#10. Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.

Alanis Morissette

#11. I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.

Jonathan Davis

#12. It's easy to lie with statistics, but it's hard to tell the truth without them.

Charles Wheelan

#13. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Statistics lie. They are designed to sway opinions. Take the time to keep yourself informed on things that matter.

Steve Maraboli

#15. Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion ... Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#16. There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.

William James

#17. While it is easy to lie with statistics, it is even easier to lie without them.

Frederick Mosteller

#18. I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Roy Acuff

#19. When I worked at Yahoo, I saw a lot of acquisitions. Some succeeded, and some failed. I think I have learned from that.

Brian Acton

#20. Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.

Sergei Lukyanenko

#21. Some may say that I couldn't sing, but no one can say that I didn't sing.

Florence Foster Jenkins

#22. You can't help the poor by becoming one of them.

Brian Tracy

#23. There are so many elements and nuances from the books that are very hard to tell in the length of a movie.

Jade Hassoune