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KNOW THYSELF

Specialty Definition: KNOW THYSELF

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Literature

Know Thyself The wise saw of Solon, the Athenian lawgiver (B.C. 638-558). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Commercial Usage: KNOW THYSELF

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Books

  • Know Thyself (reference)

  • Know Thyself, Show Thyself: A Guide to Becoming the Person You'Ve Always Dreamed of Being (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Familiar Quotations: KNOW THYSELF

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Resolve to know thyself and know he that finds himself loses his misery.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: KNOW THYSELF

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

know thyself

45
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Modern Translation: KNOW THYSELF

Language Translations for "KNOW THYSELF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

γνώθι σαυτόν. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

owknay yselfthay

   

Romanian

  

cunoaşte-te pe tine însuţi. (various references)

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Anagrams: KNOW THYSELF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-h-k-l-n-o-s-t-w-y"

-3 letters: honestly, lekythos, stonefly.

-4 letters: honesty, honkeys, howlets, stenoky, thyself.

-5 letters: ethnos, ethyls, felons, felony, fleshy, flytes, foehns, folksy, helots, honest, honeys, honkey, hostel, hostly, hotels, howlet, hoyles, kelson, ketols, kythes, lentos, lowest, owlets, shelty, sklent, soften, softly, stolen, stoney, telson, tholes, tokens, towels, whelks, whelky, wholes, yokels.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Quotations: Familiar
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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