An Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living Quotes

#1. 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 of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

John Leo

#2. Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too.

Alex Bosworth

#3. It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.

Dan Millman

#4. 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

#5. Dogs are never in a bad mood over something you said at breakfast. Dogs never sniff at the husks of old conversations, or conduct autopsies on weekends gone wrong. An unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life is hell. We talk too much.

Abigail Thomas

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, A life unlived isn't worth examining.

Oscar Wilde

#8. Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Tom Robbins

#9. I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

Arianna Huffington

#10. What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third,

Karen Armstrong

#11. 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 you don't have any real sense of yourself or where you are.

Tom Hanks

#12. Why do people do this?'
'Blog, you mean? I don't know ... didn't someone once say the unexamined life isn't worth living?'
'Yeah, Plato,' said Strike, 'but this isn't examining a life, it's exhibiting it.

Robert Galbraith

#13. 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 out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

Colin Quinn

#14. As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

Joy Behar

#15. An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

Ergun Caner

#16. What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

Os Guinness

#17. 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 times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.

Roger Ebert

#18. Socrates once said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I would expand on his thought by suggesting, "The unexamined society is not worth living in.

Eileen Workman