Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
Interesting. I suppose by definition prejudices are a bad thing. But sometimes recieved opinion is right; sometimes it's wrong. Sometimes the challenge to it is right; sometimes it's wrong. So the thing is to consider the challenge, rather than dismissing it out of hand.
ReplyDeleteSo wise. Then the ideas of the true visionaries go on to become the unimpeachable maxims of the next generation.
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