All men naturally desire knowledge.”
–Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

“To know is to know that you know nothing.  That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
–Socrates BC 470/469–399, Greek Philosopher

“And what Socrates, is the food of the soul?  Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
–Plato, Greek Philosopher

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
–Plato

“If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
–Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
–Benjamin Franklin

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
–Thomas Jefferson

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
–Confucius

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
–Confucius

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
–William Shakespeare

“All knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
–Leonardo da Vinci

“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
–Herodotus

I’m hungry for knowledge.  The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.  That’s what this world is about.  You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed.  Martin Luther King glowed.  Muhammad Ali glows.  I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.”
–Jay-Z, American rapper and entrepreneur

Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
–Godfried Bomans: Buitelingen II

Many people mistake thinking for reorganizing the thoughts they already have
–William James

“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”
–James Allen, 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of “As a Man Thinketh”

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
–Victor Hugo

“LAW 1: Any problem, to be a problem, must contain an unknown. If all was known the problem would vanish. The problem would cease to persist.”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Knowledgism – The Laws of Life”

To lose one’s full power and potential in any area, the spiritual being has to become total effect of its own creations in that area
–Alan C. Walter, from “Knowledgism – The Laws of Life”

“Dreams and aspirations are considered by the being to be its most valuable and important creations”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Knowledgism -The Laws of Life”

“LAW OF THE UNIVERSE: There must be a game”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Knowledgism – The Laws of Life”

“LAWS OF CAUSE:
Nothing is accidental
There are no mistakes
You are doing what you are doing when you are doing it
There are no victims
–Alan C. Walter, from “Knowledgism – The Laws of Life”

“BASIC LAW OF SUCCESS: Be True To Yourself”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Knowledgism – The Laws of Life”

“Truth maintained as senior to ambition empowers ambition”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Knowledgism – The Laws of Life”

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously
give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
–Marianne Williamson

LAW OF SCARCITY: If you can’t handle what you have, double it.
–Alan C. Walter, from “Potential Levels of Existence Series 8”

“It is unnatural and impossible for a person or team of people to fail unless they truly want to fail.”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Public Education Series 14”

There is nothing in the physical universe that is remotely similar in importance to the ability to be fully your self.
–Alan C. Walter, from “Responsibility Series 17”

“Good and Evil are a matter of viewpoint”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Connection Series 12”

“There is nothing good nor bad but thinking makes it so”
–William Shakespeare

LAW: “What you are reacting to (complaining or moaning about, the victim or effect of) is what you are secretly, compulsively doing yourself.”
Ref: HAMLET Act III Scene 2
HAMLET: Madam, how like you this play?
QUEEN GERTRUDE: The lady protests too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare
–Alan C. Walter, from “Consulting Series 36”

“THE LAW OF POWER: If you don’t use it to make the game better, then the game will be to get you and dis-empower you.”
–Alan C. Walter, from “Executive Series 38”

MONEY LEVELS
All people who operate life on automatic have a set money level. From this they fashion their life. The law is:
THEY ALWAYS MAINTAIN SLIGHTLY LESS THAN THEY NEED (this drives them forward).
–Alan C. Walter, from “Prosperity Series 4”

Axiom 5:
The highest purpose in the universe is to create an absence. This guarantees the continuation of games.

–Alan C. Walter, from “Axiom series 1”

“Once you have tasted the secrets, you will have a strong desire to understand them.”
–William Eamon

“He who angers you conquers you.”
–Kenny, Sister Elizabeth, pioneer in the treatment of Infantile Paralysis and polio

“With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
–Sir Thomas Foxwell Buxton, Abolitionist and Reformer

“What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.”
–Henry Van Dyke, 1852–1933, American Protestant Clergyman and Writer

The first basic ingredient of leadership is a guiding vision. The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do — professionally and personally — and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
–Warren Bennis, American Psychologist, Management Educator, and Consultant

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
–Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead
–Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
–Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
–Saul Bellow

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
–Aristophanes: The Birds, 414 B.C

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave
–Henry Peter Brougham

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
–Rita Mae Brown

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
–Sherrill Brown

All that we are is the result of what we have thought
–Buddha

Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject… The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
–Luther Burbank

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
–Robert Burton

Ignorance is the mother of devotion
–Robert Burton

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do
–Dale Carnegie

“Begin at the beginning,” the King said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
–Lewis Carroll: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on
–Winston Churchill

We find comfort among those who agree with us; growth among those who don’
–Frank A. Clark

Reality is subordinate to perception
–David B. Cole, Jr

REALITY is made by agreement. Agreement is created when two or more similar or identical images are projected and fused. The more similar or identical images that are fused from more sources, the more solid the agreement and the more real the reality. Reality is not truth. The more solid the reality, the more untruth it contains.
–Alan C. Walter, from “Gods in Disguise”

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake.
–Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand
–Confucius

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant
–Anthony J. D’Angelo: The College Blue Book

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow
–Anthony J. D’Angelo: The College Blue Book

If you never change your mind, why have one?
–Edward De Bono

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival
–W. Edwards Deming

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance
–Will Durant

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints
–Will Durant

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education
–Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning
–Albert Einstein

People only see what they are prepared to see
–Ralph Waldo Emerson

CASE: Your case is your collection of wrong answers to life.
–Alan C Walter (Zones of Life Book 1)

I want to know the thoughts of God.  Everything else is just details
–Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
–Albert Einstein

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.
–Albert Einstein

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one
–Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality
–Albert Einstein

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
–Romans 2.1 The Revised Standard Version of The Bible

If Moses had used consensus management or had taken a poll – he would never have discovered Egypt!
–Dan Peña

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain,
forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
–M. Scott Peck, M.D., American Psychiatrist, Author

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.
–Norman Vincent Peale

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it
–Margaret Thatcher

It is easy to fly into a passion… anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way, that is not easy.
–Aristotle, BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.
–Albert Einstein

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
–Charles M Schwab, 1862-1939, American

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
–Confucius, BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
–Aristotle, BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher