Quotes on Unexamined Life

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.

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.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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.

An unexamined life is a life of no account.

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.