“Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.”
“Socrates had it backward. He thought the unexamined life is not worth living. I think no one's life holds up to examination. The more time you spend thinking the more you notice that everyone else is doing something better or more important than you.”
“Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.”
“Curiosity will not cause us to die, only lack of it will. For only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.”
“We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining.”
“Look - I understand that an unexamined life is not worth living, but do you think I could someday have an unexamined lunch?”