Pragmatists Quotations

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

pragmatist that I am, I always meet necessity with enthusiasm.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.

Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.

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

I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like William James. He's actually a pragmatist.

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.