Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
Interpretation
True genius thrives on independent thought and creative dissent, not on agreement.
Albert Einstein emphasizes that genius requires questioning and challenging the status quo. When everyone agrees and reaches a consensus, it often leads to a stagnation of ideas and innovation, implying that the most significant advancements arise from diverse perspectives and critical thinking rather than from mere conformity.
In practice
In a speech promoting critical thinking, a teacher may use this quote to encourage students to voice differing opinions.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.
Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows β who never weep for the sorrows of others β very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.
Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Keep the circus going inside you, keep it going, don't take anything too seriously, it'll all work out in the end.
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
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