"Know thyself."
— Socrates
January 1, 1970
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This statement actually predates Socrates, and was used as an Inscription at the Oracle of Delphi. It is a saying traditionally ascribed to one of the "Seven Sages of Greece", notably Solon, but accounts vary as to whom. Socrates himself is reported to have quoted it in Plato's dialogue Alcibiades, where he described it as "the Delphian inscription". According to Diogenes Laërtius, Thales was the one who first stated it.
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This statement actually predates Socrates, and was used as an Inscription at the Oracle of Delphi. It is a saying traditionally ascribed to one of the "Seven Sages of Greece", notably Solon, but accounts vary as to whom. Socrates himself is reported to have quoted it in Plato's dialogue Alcibiades, where he described it as "the Delphian inscription". According to Diogenes Laërtius, Thales was the one who first stated it.