Plato quotes on know thyself

But how disgraceful, that we should not have as high a notion of what is required in us as our enemies' wives and mothers have of the qualities which are required in their assailants! O my friend, be persuaded by me, and hear the Delphian inscription,

For self-knowledge would certainly be maintained by me to be the very essence of knowledge, and in this I agree with him who dedicated the inscription, 'Know thyself!' at Delphi
Source: Plato, Charmides

PROTARCHUS: You mean, Socrates, 'Know thyself.' SOCRATES: I do; and the opposite would be, 'Know not thyself.' PROTARCHUS: Certainly
Source: Plato, Philebus

And they met together and dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphi, as the first-fruits of their wisdom, the far-famed inscriptions, which are in all men's mouths--'Know thyself,' and 'Nothing too much.' Why do I say all this? I am explaining that this Lacedaemonian brevity was the style of primitive philosophy
Source: Plato, Protagoras

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