“[W]e may... find more common ground than we currently imagine.”

—  Laurence Tribe

Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Jan. 9, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "[W]e may... find more common ground than we currently imagine." by Laurence Tribe?
Laurence Tribe photo
Laurence Tribe 35
American lawyer and law school professor 1941

Related quotes

Jacques Barzun photo

“The need for a body of common knowledge and common reference does not disappear when a society is pluralistic. On the contrary, it grows more necessary, so that people of different origins and occupation may quickly find familiar ground and as we say, speak a common language.”

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian

"Of What Use the Classics Today?," Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (1991)
Context: The need for a body of common knowledge and common reference does not disappear when a society is pluralistic. On the contrary, it grows more necessary, so that people of different origins and occupation may quickly find familiar ground and as we say, speak a common language. It not only saves time and embarrassment, but it also ensures a kind of mutual confidence and goodwill. One is not addressing an alien, as blank as a stone wall, but a responsive creature whose mind is filled with the same images, memories, and vocabulary as oneself. Otherwise, with the unstoppable march of specialization, the individual mind is doomed to solitude and the individual heart to drying up.

Albert Einstein photo

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Glen Cook photo

“They (i. e., the peasants) could imagine no future more grim than their past.”

Glen Cook book She Is the Darkness

Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 86 (p. 575)

“In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.”

Robert Anderson (1917–2009) American playwright, screenwriter, and theater producer
Jesse Jackson photo

“When we divide, we cannot win. We must find common ground as the basis for survival and development and change, and growth.”

Jesse Jackson (1941) African-American civil rights activist and politician

Address to the Democratic National Convention (July 19, 1988)

W. Somerset Maugham photo

“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Summing Up

Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 164

Milan Kundera photo

“Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.”

Milan Kundera The Joke

The Joke (1967)

C. V. Boys photo

“There is more in a common bubble than those who have only played with them generally imagine.”

C. V. Boys (1855–1944) British physicist

[Charles Vernon Boys, Soap-bubbles and the forces which mould them: Being a course of three lectures delivered in the theatre of the London institution on the afternoons of Dec. 30, 1889, Jan. 1 and 3, 1890, before a juvenile audience, Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1896, 10]

Harold II of England photo

“Seven feet of English ground, or as much more as he may be taller than other men.”

Harold II of England (1022–1066) Anglo-Saxon King of England

Variant translation: He will give him seven feet of English ground, or as much more as he may be taller than other men.
Attributed by the Icelandic writer Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241) in his Saga of Harald Hardrade.
1066, when asked by his traitorous brother, Tostig, how much of England he was prepared to give up to the invading King Harald Hardrada of Norway
Attributed

Related topics