“Despite appearances I'm not a cynic. I'm a sarcastic pragmatist.” — Stephen "B5"Jones Copy Share Image
In the end, Arik believes in security above all and is a salient pragmatist, a disciple of Ben-Gurion. — Reuven Rivlin Copy Share Image
Everyone's a mixed bag. I'm a utopian social anarchist, but I'm also a pragmatist. — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist. — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence single-handedly defeats the pragmatist and the cynic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I'm a pragmatist, and I don't like gratuitous fashion - in fact, there's not that much gratuitous anything in my life. — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
I am a pragmatist. We are given what we have here in terms of government, so as an anarchist, okay, I'll lean… — Vermin Supreme Copy Share Image
“I'm a kindhearted but highly competitive pragmatist. When I seek to win something, I always make certain it's never at the expense… — Jonathan Kieran Copy Share Image
I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and… — William James Copy Share Image
No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of… — Bob Dole Copy Share Image
The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“More erudite authors who advocate an irrationalist point of view, such as the pragmatist philosophers, are not to be caught out so… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Start thinking like a radical pragmatist: still ambitious, aggressive, and rooted in ideals, but also imminently practical and guided by the possible.… — Anonymous 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
“Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“If she captured Tamlin’s power once, who’s to say she can’t do it again?” It was the question I hadn’t yet dared… — Sarah J. Maas 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
“There is something immoral about abandoning your common sense in matters of social importance.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
