“You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! — Adam Leipzig Copy Share Image
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Socrates once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I would expand on his thought by suggesting, "The unexamined society is… — Eileen Workman Copy Share Image
“The other day in prayer I said to God, “Look—I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Early on in this book, I quoted Socrates's famous dictum that, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Let me now turn… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is not worth living,’ observed Plato. But the number of people who come out of our leadership development programs… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“My brief forays into the formal ethics of analytic philosophy felt dry as a bone, missing the messiness and weight of real… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“The unexamined life is eminently worth living, were anyone so fortunate. It would be the life of an animal, brave and alert,… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself… — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
“The philosopher Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” If a common philosopher could think that, how much more we… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
“We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived… — Benjamin Barber Copy Share Image
“Just like how the unexamined life isn't worth living, the unexamined belief isn't worth believing” — asian marketer Amos Lau Copy Share Image
An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding. — Ergun Caner Copy Share Image
“(...)while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.” — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
