Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

"The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: God, Policy, Computer, Land, Law, Physics)

"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: Ideas)

"In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: History, Ideas)

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: Ideas, Books)

"A Socrates in every classroom."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: Classroom)

"It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not."
- Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Related: Criticism)