That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.


The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations (ed. 1883)

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.