The unexamined life is not worth living.
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insightself-inquirySource: Plato, Apology 38a (c. 399–390 BCE)
Socrates' words as reported by Plato at his trial, Apology 38a: 'ho de anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi' — the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. Standard, uncontested, and the single best-sourced Socrates quotation. Strictly speaking it is Plato's rendering of Socrates, who left no writings, but the attribution convention is universal.