"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." ― Albert Einstein Topic(s): Great Tags: always, encountered, great, spirits More From Albert Einstein "Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." "True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist." "It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed." More In Great "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."― Gilbert K. Chesterton "All great truths begin as blasphemies."― George Bernard Shaw "The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."― Sigmund Freud