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The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either. -- Colin Quinn
An unexamined life is a life of no account. -- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. -- Plato
An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding. -- Ergun Caner
How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? -- Jack Heffron
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! -- Adam Leipzig
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. -- Irvin D. Yalom
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. -- Dan Millman
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. -- Mark Twain
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life. -- Rebecca Solnit
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living. -- Saul Bellow
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge. -- Roger Ebert
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth. -- Walter Lippmann
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either. -- John Leo
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?' -- Arianna Huffington
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option. -- Robert A. Burton
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. -- Christopher Titus
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. -- Tom Robbins
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well? -- Kurt Vonnegut
Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.' -- Mitch Albom
So much of our lives are defined by habit or what the guy next to us is doing, never wondering and knowing who and what we support with our actions, from the detergent Mom always used, to my favorite dish I make... A lot of my life is unexamined habit. -- Kristin Bauer van Straten
Life unexamined, is not worth living. -- Democritus
for the unexamined life is not worth living. -- Plato
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. -- Oscar Wilde
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living. -- William Sloane Coffin
As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that. -- Joy Behar
You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted. -- Bryant McGill
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka aretÃ©) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. -- Socrates
Socrates once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I would expand on his thought by suggesting, "The unexamined society is not worth living in. -- Eileen Workman
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining. -- Benjamin Barber
Unexamined thoughts, habits or action may offer some deceptive gain or pleasure but eventually it takes away something most valuable from our life ,which we have ever wished for. -- Aditya Ajmera

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