...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Genius cannot simply float in the clouds, it must also operate down on earth.” — Irène Némirovsky 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
ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer? — Tom Stoppard 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
Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism. — Dominic Cummings 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
“The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
Extremists on the left tend to be just as critical of pragmatism as extremists on the right. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
[Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life… — William James Copy Share Image
The most vital issue of the age is whether the future progress of humanity is to be governed by the modern economic… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“...this is very nice, cozy. You got a nice cozy place, Lublin." "Cramped," Rosa said. "I work from a different theory. For… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Think about everything you read and everything you see. The one thing we can learn from all the horrible things that have… — Greg Proops Copy Share Image
Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have… — William James Copy Share Image
Christians have been trying to help Jesus build His Kingdom by striking a deal with the devil. Every effort to advance the… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
“Common-Law judges sometimes talk about the law, and schoolmasters talk about the latin tongue, in a way to make their hearers think… — William James 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
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
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
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
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
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
“You might think that after all the shameful capitulations made by the government during the ups and downs of their negotiations with… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Cine a ucis stelele? Cine a surpat drumul spre viitor al celor din morminte?” — Ionel Teodoreanu 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 have put pragmatism ahead of idealism and understand that concessions are necessary in a negotiation. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism. — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
The strongest streak in the American character is a fierce pragmatism that mistrust blind ideology of every stripe and insists on finding… — Eric Liu 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
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
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