John Muir Quotes

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

Only fools imagine they are already awake. How clearly they understand everything! How easily they distinguish this deception from that reality!

We are fooles one to another.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

No one who lives in error is free.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

We have a never sated appetite for self deception.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

That isn’t greatness. That’s just foolishness.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.