Quotes by Alfred Whitney Griswold

About Alfred Whitney Griswold:

Alfred Whitney Griswold was an American historian and educator. He served as 16th President of Yale University from 1951 to 1963, during which he built much of Yale's modern scientific research infrastructure, especially on Science Hill.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest pat...

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

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

A Socrates in every classroom.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Author Bio

  • NameAlfred Whitney Griswold
  • DescriptionAmerican historian
  • BornOctober 27, 1906
  • DiedApril 19, 1963
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship