Alfred Whitney Griswold Quotes

"Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored."
-Alfred Whitney Griswold

"A Socrates in every classroom."
-Alfred Whitney Griswold in Education quotes.

"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

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail."
-Alfred Whitney Griswold

"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."
-Alfred Whitney Griswold

"The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."
-Alfred Whitney Griswold

"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