A Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

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

Dan Millman

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

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

Ergun Caner

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Old Tom Morris

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

Sheldon B. Kopp

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 unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing. The self must not be held out of the arena until living skills have been learned.

Jo Coudert

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 is not worth living.

Socrates

Life unexamined, is not worth living.

Democritus

A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying for, it is not worth living for. Brave, godly martyrs throughout history have proven time and again that what we as Christians live for is worth dying for.

Phil Pringle

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

Plato

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

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.