His track record of pragmatism, depth and candor all speak to a person who would find the Tea Party simplistic, opportunistic and… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making… — Bono Copy Share Image
“I am whatever I need to be to survive. Roles are as interchangeable as clothes and there are enough fools out there… — Belart Wright Copy Share Image
Plato and his objectivistic successors ... preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism has been invented to deny the difference between thinking… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being… — William James Copy Share Image
The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you can ensure anything when it comes to people. I’m sure you find it odd, but most of us… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism… — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
There are partnerships based on principle. There are partnerships based on pragmatism. And fortunately, when it comes to Indo-American relations, both concentrations… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature,… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All of the members of my new team have displayed in their work a strong sense of pragmatism that I promote... The… — Donald Tsang Copy Share Image
In the end, pragmatism requires a workable compromise. But none exists on Brexit. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
The common belief is that you are either a dreamer or a realist. But idealism and pragmatism aren't as far apart as… — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to most of us .. that the question 'what is the truth' is no real question (being irrelative to… — William James Copy Share Image
The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Pragmatism , in trying to turn experimental physics into a prototype of all science and to model all spheres of intellectual life… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
“Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in… — William James Copy Share Image
“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — William James Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
