Pragmatism Quotes
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It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
— Cesare Beccaria
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
— Issey Miyake
Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.
— Cory Booker
Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.
— Richard M. Rorty
I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man's wits. ( ... ) And I believe there once were dragons. I've seen their skulls, after all.
— George R R Martin
I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.
— Abraham Lincoln
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
— Adam Phillips
My grandparents forgave each other with the pragmatism of lovers in a plummeting airplane. There
— Michael Chabon
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
— Jonah Goldberg
Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism
— Robert Holdstock
Music is no longer tasted it is swallowed.
— Jules Verne
One thing I've always liked about the military is there's a certain amount of pragmatism.
— Phil Klay
Pragmatism, consumerism, self-help moralism, and narcissism are simply the symptoms of a disease that is, at its heart, theological:
— Michael S. Horton
She dominated his thinking nonetheless. Cassian believed neither pity nor pragmatism explained it.
— Alexander Freed
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
— Margaret Chase Smith
When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.
— Geraldine Brooks
Pursue your passion, and everything will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.
— Gabrielle Giffords
Anger flared through him, but anger was unproductive so he twisted it into pragmatism while he searched for a flaw.
— Victoria Schwab
Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
In this dismissal of origins we see the new pragmatism.
— Sherry Turkle
You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man's vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.
— Mary Doria Russell
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Every positive attempt was as a result of encouragement, every encouragement leads to success.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.
— John Taliaferro
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
— Graham Greene
Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
— Edward Abbey
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right.
— Richard M. Nixon
There are no atheists in foxholes or ideologues in a financial crisis. Ben Bernanke
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.
— R.A. MacAvoy
We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.
— William Deresiewicz
Nations, like people, are often more pragmatic than they know or can explain.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Coming from a business family, she shied away from abstractions.
— Stephen L. Carter
Like two figures in the medieval Morality play, Pragmatism and Morality spar in the boxing ring of my brain.
— John Kennedy Toole
The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.
— Jeffrey Toobin
He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
— Clive Barker
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.
— Richard M. Nixon
We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.
— Hilary Mantel
They never could entirely control preternaturals. It's your pragmatism. Your kind cannot be persuaded by faith; pure logic must be applied.
— Gail Carriger
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
— Daniel Bell
A ministry based on pragmatism is built on sand regardless of whether it is more traditional or contemporary.
— Michael S. Horton
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look?GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? — Tom Stoppard
Ayer may be considered a practical atheist: one who sees no reason to worship an invisible deity.
— James A. Haught
There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.
— Iain M. Banks
Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist.
— G.K. Chesterton
Now even reformers needed political machines.
— Rick Perlstein
Even though he said no store in uncanny things, he was soldier enough to value with whatever weapon came to hand.
— Geraldine Brooks
While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.
— James L. Cambias
What matters is what works.
— Tony Blair
The originals are not original, but that Emersonian irony yield to the Emersonian pragmatism that the inventor knows how to borrow.
— Harold Bloom
We make versions, and true versions make worlds.
— Nelson Goodman
Congressmen had a use for their very own son of a bitch.
— Rick Perlstein
Books and minds only work when they're open.
— James Dewar
Ordinary life goes onthat has saved many a man's reason. — Graham Greene
Never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.
— Walter Isaacson