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• The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Jack Heffron
• If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep… — Socrates
• Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived… — 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… — Richard J. Foster

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