Your understanding could be correct, but I've heard of others as well. I had heard/understood for it to be quite the opposite, based on speculation that the gre

Your understanding could be correct, but I've heard of others as well. I had heard/understood for it to be quite the opposite, based on speculation that the greek saying is likely taken from an Egyptian inscription "know thyself, and you will know the gods" aka the body is the temple of god. I believe Socrates expanded the statement to mean "the unexamined life is not worth living". all my sources are this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_thyself