Pragmatisti Quotes

#1. 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.

William James

#2. Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?

Susan B. Anthony

#3. A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

Ron Fournier

#4. The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

Mercedes McCambridge

#5. The remedy for thirst? It is the opposite of the one for a dog bite: run always after a dog, he'll never bite you; drink always before thirst, and it will never overtake you.

Francois Rabelais

#6. The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#7. After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#8. It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

Jeanette Winterson

#9. The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.

Billy Graham

#10. When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

Mahmoud Darwish

#11. I have a heart, science told me so.

Anonymous

#12. The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give.

Amanda Owen

#13. What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.

Robert Gottlieb