...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu Copy Share Image
“While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.” — James Cambias Copy Share Image
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“The point is that when one is dealing with a too-powerful-for-the-present force, pragmatism demands one bite one's lip, play the game, and… — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
“We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I have put pragmatism ahead of idealism and understand that concessions are necessary in a negotiation. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true… — William James Copy Share Image
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming… — Boyd K. Packer 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
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
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, and inaugurated the biggest crisis since the 1930s, there were no real alternatives to… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd.… — Milan Kundera 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
“Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because the poverty’s… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism emphasizes the irrationality of opinion, and psycho-analysis emphasizes the irrationality of conduct. Both have led many people to the view that… — Bertrand Russell 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
“This kind of pragmatism has become a hallmark of our psychological culture. In the mid-1990s, I described how it was commonplace for… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
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