Quote by Henry Clay
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. - Henry Clay

Statistics are no substitute for judgment. – Henry Clay

Other quotes by Henry Clay

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. – Henry Clay

Category:
Government
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Statistics
category

I always find that statistics are hard to swallow and impossible to digest. The only one I can ever remember is that if all the people who go to sleep in church were laid end to end they would be a lot more comfortable. – Mrs. Robert A. Taft

Category:
Statistics

After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, “Lies – damned lies – and statistics,” still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. – Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at

Category:
Statistics

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. – Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct

Category:
Statistics

I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, Im not going to deny that you dont now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand. – Ronald Reagan

Category:
Statistics

Random Quotes

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? – Tony Kushner

Category:
Beauty

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success. – Rand Paul

Category:
Success

What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life. – Rick Perry

Category:
Faith

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once theyve learned the rules. – Anna Quindlen

Category:
Freedom