A Quote by Ergun Caner

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

Ergun Caner

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Ergun Caner
American - Academic
Born: November 3, 1966

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

Elizabeth Gilbert

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Dan Millman

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Democritus

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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

Plato

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. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Adam Leipzig

Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.

William Sloane Coffin

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

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Irvin D. Yalom

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

Tom Robbins

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.