Lies And Statistics Quotes

#1. There are three types of lies
lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Mark Twain

#3. The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games.

Michael Lewis

#4. I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.

Paloma Faith

#5. We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret.

Peter Greenaway

#6. There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.

Newt Gingrich

#8. I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.

Jackie Chan

#9. There's three kinds of lies in this world:
There's lies ...
There's damned lies ...
And there's statistics

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.

Timothy Ferriss

#11. The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.

Yehuda Levi

#12. From the animist point of view, humans belong in a sacred place because they themselves are sacred. Not sacred in a special way, not more sacred than anything else, but merely as sacred as anything else
as sacred as bison or salmon or crows or crickets or bears or sunflowers.

Daniel Quinn

#13. This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

Adriana Trigiani

#14. The wicked are always ungrateful.

Miguel De Cervantes

#15. I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.

John Irving

#16. Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Tanith Lee

#17. As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another.

The Arbinger Institute

#18. In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

Stephen Leacock

#19. It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.

Anders Hejlsberg

#20. Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Stephen Leacock