Knowing Yourself Is The Beginning Of

This quote cannot be traced to any of Aristotle's surviving works. It likely conflates the ancient Greek maxim "Know thyself" (γνῶθι σεαυτόν), inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and central to the philosophy of Socrates, with Aristotle's broader writings on wisdom. His actual opening line in Metaphysics — "All men by nature desire to know" — expresses a related but distinct idea.