Pragmatists Quotes

Pragmatists Quote of the day

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

I'd describe myself as a pragmatist tinged with idealism.

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.