Ideas Quote by Bill Watterson

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle…

— Bill Watterson

“We may be tainted with pragmatism, but it only needs a clash of personalities to remind us of our principles.”

— Hilary Mantel

“To be a person of principle is to accept the reality that their stance will never cease to draw the fire of those whose…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested…

— David Hume

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

— Vernon A. Walters

“A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles…

— Lisa Wingate

“Idealists mature badly. If they can’t outgrow their idealism, they become hypocrites or blind.”

— Brent Weeks

“If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“When you act according to your principles you are being dishonest because when you act according to what you think you ought to be…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The principled man is merely one whose ancestors were ruthlessly unprincipled, affording him the option of acting upon fine sentiments.”

— Lynn Cullen

“all idealist philosophies devour their own feet without realizing it.”

— Étienne Gilson

“tis the part of a truly prudent man not to be wise beyond his condition, but either to take no notice of what the…

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus