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.
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.
This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.
It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that.
How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
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