Best Unexamined Quotes
54 Unexamined quotes by 44 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.
— Plato
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
— Gary Hamel
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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
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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
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Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
— Tom Robbins
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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
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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
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Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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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
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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
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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
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And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.
— Stephen King
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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
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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
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The unexamined faith is not worth having.
— Unknown Author
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An unexamined life is not worth living.
— Socrates
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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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