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Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

Jef Raskin

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

William James

Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.

1st Earl of Chatham

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

W. C. Fields

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

W. Somerset Maugham

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

George Earle Buckle

…never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism.

Walter Isaacson

The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

Ludwig von Mises

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Heinrich Heine

One does not ask whether a scientific theory is true, but only whether it is convenient.

Henri Poincare

The system doesn’t have to be pure, but it does have to work.

Aminu Kano

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

Adam Phillips

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Danny Strong

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

John Kenneth Galbraith

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Josh Billings

As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.

Saul Alinsky

People are far more interested in what works than what’s true.

Andy Stanley

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

Baron Bilimoria

Even the most pragmatic person fell victim at times to a longing for something other.

Kate Morton

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Kathleen Parker

It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

Susan Stebbing

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Mark Twain

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