“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?” — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
I have no clue what Plato was talking about when he said that the unexamined wife was not worth leaving. I don't… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
“What do you think Socrates meant when he said, “The unexamined life is not worth living”? Third,” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that. — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
“A good, but unexamined life will be high on duty and not likely to celebrate the odd paradoxes, the ironic coincidences and… — C.S. Lewis 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
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us… — Hilary Mantel 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
“if they did not interrogate their most fundamental beliefs, they would live superficial, expedient lives, because “the unexamined life is not worth… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living."… — John Leo 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
“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 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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? — Jack Heffron Copy Share Image
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life… — Socrates Copy Share Image
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates 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