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An over examination of life can deter you from life itself
— Ilyas Kassam
The poorest people are not people without money, but people without memories of happier times when they're down
— Kim Dong-joo
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
Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn.
— Debasish Mridha
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
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
— Vernon Cooper
I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that.
— Sean Duffy
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
Back then, as now, narratives shaped outcomes in courtrooms.
— Barry Siegel
The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.
— Edgar Friedenberg
It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.
— Bertrand Russell
If the Great Physician examined your life, what do you think His diagnosis would be concerning your spiritual life?
— Jonah Books
The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.
— Colum McCann
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.
— Dov Davidoff
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
Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.
— Margot Robbie
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
— Terence McKenna
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
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
— Mark Twain
You can't dissect a joy without killing it.
— Marty Rubin
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
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 only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
— John Calvin
I should have celebrated my life as it was, imperfections, sadness, and all, and not forensically examined its faults.
— Gilly Macmillan
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've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
— Raymond Bonner
Hurting people is my business.
— Sugar Ray Robinson
Thurough examination will do the healthy no harm, and it may bless the sick.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon