Pragmatism Quotes

• If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.

  

  William James
  • Relation
  • Concrete
  • Pragmatism

• You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

  

  Bono U2
  • Exciting
  • Idealism
  • Allied

• ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Why
  • Looks
  • Offers

• For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

  

  Michael Hayden
  • American
  • Administration
  • Theories

• Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Platform
  • Pragmatism
  • Partisanship

• The perennial architectural debate has always been, and will continue to be, about art versus use, visions versus pragmatism, aesthetics versus social responsibility. In the end, these unavoidable conflicts provide architecture's essential and productive tensions; the tragedy is that so little of it rises above the level imposed by compromise, and that this is the only work most of us see and know.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Responsibility
  • Tragedy
  • Pragmatism

• [Pragmatism's] only test of probable truth is what works best in the way of leading us, what fits every part of life best and combines with the collectivity of experience's demands, nothing being omitted.

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Fit
  • Demand

• Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Philosophy
  • Safe
  • Pragmatism

• It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Crime
  • Pragmatism

• We haven't shed our engineering pragmatism, so we accomplish things in the simplest manner possible. It helps with budget, obviously. We're not getting rich off web video, and we're supporting two families with our income, so we need to keep as much of the budget to ourselves.

  

  Rhett McLaughlin
  • Engineering
  • Families
  • Accomplish

• I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Theory
  • Swim
  • Pragmatism

• Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Imagine
  • Innovation
  • Idealism