Statistics Lie Quotes

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

Steve Maraboli

#2. 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

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

Sergei Lukyanenko

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

Frederick Mosteller

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

William James

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

Charles Wheelan

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

Frederick Mosteller

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

George W. Buck

#9. 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

#10. 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