Alfred Griswold Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

8 Famous Quotes by Alfred 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.”
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“A Socrates in every classroom.”
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“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.”
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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.”
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“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”
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“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.”
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“It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.”
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“Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.”
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