Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Theodor Reik, (May 12 1888-1969), US psychoanalyst, author; He was a pupil of Freud who disagreed with him on theories of sex and love; wrote The Psychology of Sex Relations, 1945.