Ancient Quote by Colin Quinn

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

— Plato

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather…

— Saul Bellow

In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer… offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our…

— John Leo

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

Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm.

— Christopher Titus

“The un-re-examined life is not worth living”

— Anonymous

“The over examined life is not worth living.”

— Culum McCan

It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.

— Socrates

“We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.”

— Julia Cameron

Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“(...)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

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

— Adam Leipzig