Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Interpretation
Innovators and great thinkers often face resistance from those who are less ambitious or understanding.
This quote by Albert Einstein suggests that individuals with extraordinary ideas or visions often struggle against the pushback of more conventional or less imaginative people. The opposition they face is not necessarily due to the shortcomings of their ideas, but rather reflects the limitations and fears of those who do not understand or appreciate innovation.
In practice
During a motivational speech about innovation in the workplace.
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.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
Strong delusions travel like _x000D_ cold germs on a sneeze.
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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