Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living. — William Sloane Coffin
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates
Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living. My dad said, Booty - mmm mmm. — Christopher Titus
To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude. — Mencius
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. — Ovid
A life not lived for others is not a life. — Mother Teresa
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Short Unexamined Life Quotes
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. — Euripides
He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows. — Percy Jewett Burrell
A useless life is an early death. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Examined Life Quotes
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. — Oliver Sacks
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. — Susan L. Taylor
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation. — Peter Wessel Zapffe
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect. — Hermann Hesse
Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions. — Martha C. Nussbaum
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life. — Josemaria Escriva
If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you. — Theophan the Recluse
We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over. — John Bevere
It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself. — Cornel West
Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life. — Rebecca Solnit
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 think: 'I've left things a little late. — Mitch Albom
Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. — Irvin D. Yalom
An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding. — Ergun Caner
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
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 should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble. — Garth Nix
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 worth examining. — Benjamin Barber
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 living. — Socrates
It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining. — Dan Millman
A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining. — Oscar Wilde
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all. — Mark Twain
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
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 justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth. — Walter Lippmann
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 be living. — Saul Bellow
The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living! — Adam Leipzig
Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch? — Elizabeth Gilbert
The unexamined life is not worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining. — Tracy Thompson
I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own. — Hilary Mantel
As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that. — Joy Behar
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
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
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
How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? — Jack Heffron
We have so many ideas and beliefs about ourselves. We told ourselves story about what we want and who we are, smart or kind. Often these are the unexamined and limited ideas of others that we have internalized and then gone on to life out. — Jack Kornfield
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 be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. — Socrates
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, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option. — Robert A. Burton
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins
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