pragmatist Quotes

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

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

My only definition is that I am a pragmatist.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.

I'm a very proud Democrat, but I also like results.

Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatistI have so carefully posited 'reality' ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.

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

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

I have never been an idealist - that implies you aren't going to achieve something.

I'm generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works.

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.

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.