Despite appearances I'm not a cynic. I'm a sarcastic…

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

— Jane Fonda

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

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

— Vernon A. Walters

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches…

— Kerry James Marshall

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a…

— Alan Watts

I don't take myself that seriously. I'm a pragmatist.

— Guy Kawasaki

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually…

— Philip Kitcher

In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion.

— Reuven Rivlin

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always…

— Vladimir Putin

“I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense of anything…

— Jonathan Kieran

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes…

— William James

I'm not a Pollyanna; I'm a pragmatist.

— Laura Lang

“More erudite authors who advocate an irrationalist point of view, such as the pragmatist philosophers, are not to be caught out so easily. They…

— Bertrand Russell