Wisdom Pragmatism Quotes

#1. Nations, like people, are often more pragmatic than they know or can explain.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#3. I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

Haile Gerima

#4. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. Do the right thing.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!

Pat Mitchell

#6. Risk means that more things could happen that will happen

Elroy Dimson

#7. If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

#8. Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.

Karl Popper

#9. Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

Robert Orben

#10. No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out.

Arthur Lydiard

#11. Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern science, and reconcile the differences between Eastern spirituality and Western pragmatism.

Stanislav Grof

#12. The ways of the heart are complex." He looked out at the ocean again. "The waves churn and break upon the rocks, Talon. So do human feelings. Passion can be a man's undoing. With passion must come wisdom; otherwise, your enemies have a weapon to use against you.

Raymond E. Feist

#13. DJs and people in the street know what they like.

Roy Ayers