Jeff McNeill > Jeff's Quotes

“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“Overconfidence is a powerful force.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

“One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea