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54 Unexamined quotes by 44 unique authors

Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with… — Jack Heffron
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies… — Terence McKenna
The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you… — Garth Nix
You have to adhere to a philosophy that the life unexamined is not worth living, because otherwise you're just living from day to day and… — Tom Hanks
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an… — Samuel Johnson
Hakomi is a path taken by those who work to go beyond the half remembered hurts and failed beliefs that linger unexamined in the mind… — Ron Kurtz
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… — John Leo
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… — Mitch Albom
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. — Plato
The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs. — Gary Hamel
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free… — Jon Meacham
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… — Colin Quinn
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
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
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? — Elizabeth Gilbert
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… — Roger Ebert
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a… — Michael Pollan
The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through. Most people had not lived… — James A. Baldwin
And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible. — Stephen King
Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and… — Kay Redfield Jamison
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… — Kristin Bauer van Straten
The unexamined faith is not worth having. — Unknown Author
An unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
I have no clue what Plato was talking about when he said that the unexamined wife was not worth leaving. I don't even know whose… — Rock Cowles

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