To Find Yourself Think For Yourself

This concise formulation does not appear in any ancient source but distills a central theme of Socratic philosophy. In Plato's dialogues, Socrates consistently urged his interlocutors to examine their own beliefs through reason rather than accepting received wisdom. The Delphic maxim "Know thyself" (γνῶθι σεαυτόν), which Socrates took as a guiding principle, expresses this same imperative in its ancient Greek form.