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An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
— Ilyas Kassam
The examined life is no picnic.
— Robert Fulghum
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
Self-doubt was a luxury, as, perhaps, was the examined life. And yet the examined life, as the adage had it, was the only life worth living.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.
— Colum McCann
If the Great Physician examined your life, what do you think His diagnosis would be concerning your spiritual life?
— Jonah Books
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
— Jules Verne
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
— Edgar Friedenberg
Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. But you know, an over-examined life can be a real crap festival, too.
— Alex Bosworth
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
— Nicole Kidman
The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.
— Tomas Borge
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
I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness, and all, and not forensically examined its faults.
— Gilly Macmillan
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
— Susan Orlean
Human knowledge is one thing, human wellbeing another. There is no predetermined harmony between the two. The examined life may not be worth living.
— John N. Gray
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
You can't dissect a joy without killing it.
— Marty Rubin
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
— Mark Twain
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
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
— Terence McKenna
We all know that the un-examined life is not worth living (socrates). But if all you are doing is examining, you are not living.
— Adam Leipzig
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.
— Dov Davidoff