A Quote by Colin Quinn

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

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Colin Quinn
American - Comedian
Born: June 6, 1959

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

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

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

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

Mark Twain

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

Ergun Caner

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Democritus

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

Adam Leipzig

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

Plato

We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'