Unexamined Life Quotes

25 Unexamined Life quotes by 18 unique authors

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… — Walter Lippmann
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. — Irvin D. Yalom
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,… — Robert Burton
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
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… — Socrates
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
An unexamined life is a life of no account. — Socrates
Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?… — Jack Heffron
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't… — Socrates
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… — Benjamin Barber
The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this… — Richard J. Foster
How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? — Jack Heffron
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
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
The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. — Plato
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
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
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
Early on in this book, I quoted Socrates's famous dictum that, 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Let me now turn the phrase inside… — Jo Coudert
Mans self-awareness is the progenitor of his alienation, fear, egocentrism, and anxiety; therefore, the unexamined life is worth living for the human herds, because it… — Rev Richard Skaff

Who Wrote These Unexamined Life Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 25 Unexamined Life Quotes as follows: