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Pragmatism values the practical rather than the theoretical

• Pragmatism: Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical consideration. Oxford Dictionary
• Pragmatism: A practical approach to problems and affairs. Merriam Webster
• The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical. Samael Aun Weor
• The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Problem solving,  Common sense

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Pragmatism is focusing on what works

• I’m generally a very pragmatic person: that which works, works. Linus Torvalds

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Pragmatism focuses on results, consequences and facts

• No particular results then, so far, but only an attitude of orientation, is what the pragmatic method means. The attitude of looking away from first things, principles, ‘categories,’ supposed necessities; and of looking towards last things, fruits, consequences, facts. William James
• Consequences,  Facts

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Pragmatism is about using common sense

• Common sense is pragmatic. It is what William James called “the cash value of an idea.”  It is a method that works, a truth that can be applied.  Wilferd A. Peterson
• Common sense

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Pragmatism believes the ends justifies the means

• Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. Margaret Chase Smith

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Pragmatism does not believe in absolute, objective or permanent truth …

• I agree with the pragmatists that apparent objective truth is not the whole matter; that there is an authoritative need to believe the things that are necessary to the human mind. But I say that one of those necessities precisely is a belief in objective truth. The pragmatist tells a man to think what he must think and never mind the Absolute. But precisely one of the things that he must think is the Absolute. This philosophy, indeed, is a kind of verbal paradox. Pragmatism is a matter of human needs; and one of the first of human needs is to be something more than a pragmatist. G.K. Chesterton
• The Pragmatists declared that philosophy must be practical and that practicality consists of dispensing with all absolute principles and standards—that there is no such thing as objective reality or permanent truth—that truth is that which works, and its validity can be judged only by its consequences—that no facts can be known with certainty in advance, and anything may be tried by rule-of-thumb—that reality is not firm, but fluid and “indeterminate,” that there is no such thing as a distinction between an external world and a consciousness (between the perceived and the perceiver), there is only an undifferentiated package-deal labeled “experience,” and whatever one wishes to be true, is true, whatever one wishes to exist, does exist, provided it works or makes one feel better. Ayn Rand
• Truth

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… but values only those truths that are useful in practical terms

• Pragmatism asks its usual question. “Grant an idea or belief to be true,” it says, “What concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms? William James
• Pragmatism: A philosophical movement or system having various forms, but generally stressing practical consequences as constituting the essential criterion in determining meaning, truth, or value.  Dictionary.com

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Pragmatism doesn’t value knowledge for its own sake but how it can be applied and acted upon

• Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. Dale Carnegie
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Bruce Lee
• Knowledge might be power, but only when you take action. Richard Keeves
• Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. Lao Tzu
• Knowledge needs to be a verb. Edwards Denning
• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
• A little knowledge that acts is worth more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran
• To know and not to do is not yet to know. Lao Tzu
• Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Abdul Kalam
• What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin
• Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him who plows his land and leaves it unsown. Muslih-uddin Sadi
• However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book? Saadi
• Knowledge

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Wisdom only becomes practical through the application of experience

• Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. Samuel Smiles
• Wisdom

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Dream in a pragmatic way

• Be a practical dreamer backed by action. Bruce Lee
• Dream in a pragmatic way. Aldous Huxley
• Dreams

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Be practical with your feet on the ground

• Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt

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Balance theory with real word application

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we’re attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth. Billy Corgan

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Be pragmatic by following your passion

• Pursue your passion, and everything will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism. Gabrielle Giffords
• Passion,  Do what you love

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Balance idealism with 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

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The difficulty with pragmatism is that truths do not always work and beliefs that work are not always true

• The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always ‘work’, and beliefs that ‘work’ are by no means always true. John Warwick Montgomery
• Truth,  Belief

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• She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon. Clive Barker

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