Pragmatists Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

• It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a… — Mel Smith
• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without… — Simon Barnes
• To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks,… — Abraham Kaplan
• Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess… — Garry Kasparov
• Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. — Nitin Nohria
• The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty. — Charles Sanders Peirce
• I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects… — Brian Ferneyhough
• Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and… — Bill Watterson
• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. — Christopher Lasch
• Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. — Alan Perlis
• The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's… — P.J. O'Rourke
• Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs… — Mark Kurlansky
• The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad… — Alan Watts

Who Wrote These Pragmatists Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 13 Pragmatists Quotes as follows:

• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Nitin Nohria
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Brian Ferneyhough
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Bill Watterson
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Christopher Lasch
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Alan Perlis
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Mel Smith
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Simon Barnes
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Abraham Kaplan
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Garry Kasparov
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Mark Kurlansky
• 1 Pragmatists Quote by Alan Watts