Quotes About Delphic oracle

The search for spirituality is, first of all, a search for reality, for honesty, for true speaking and true thinking. At least from the time of the Delphic oracle's first admonition, Know thyself, the arch-foe of spirituality has been recognized to be "denial"—the self-deception that rejects self by attempting to repudiate the essential paradox that is our human be-ing.

The Delphic Oracle said I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because that I alone, of all the Greeks, know that I know nothing.