The injunction “know thyself,” in its original Greek version, was inscribed at the entrance to the oracular shrine of Apollo at Delphi. It was addressed to those who sought knowledge of their ...

"Know thyself" is an ancient Egyptian precept ... have been under the misapprehension that the original aphorism was an inscription at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi; not realising that the Greek ...

Twenty-five hundred years ago, someone inscribed Know thyself on a column at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, where the Pythian priestesses famously uttered their prophecies. Socrates, whom one ...

"Know thyself!" The phrase has a serious philosophical pedigree: By Socrates’ time, it was more or less received wisdom (apparently chiseled into the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi ...

The question resonates down to us from antiquity: the injunction “know thyself” was, according to the 2nd-century Greek traveller Pausanias, inscribed on the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo ...

To know thyself sounds simple and sensible, but like many other sound injunctions—eat healthy food; treat others with respect—the excellent advice is hard to put into practice because it ...