Best Quotes by Alfred Whitney Griswold (Top 7)
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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. 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
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A Socrates in every classroom.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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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
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Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Alfred Whitney Griswold