1. "Data! data! data!", he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
– Sherlock Holmes, "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"
2. Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
– Henry Clay
3. A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
– E. W. Howe
4. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
– Mark Twain, Autobiography, attributed to Benjamin Disraeli
5. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
– Albert Einstein
6. He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than for illumination.
– Andrew Lang
7. Statistics are for losers.
– Scotty Bowman
8. Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.
– William W. Watt
9. Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
– Lawrence J. Peter
10. Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
– W. I. E. Gates
11. Statistics — figures used as arguments.
– Leonard Louis Levinson
12. Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
– Charles H. Grosvenor