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" In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. "

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" All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules. "

" Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life. "

" Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation. "

" Play is the answer to the question, 'How does anything new come about?' "

" The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching. "

" To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. "

" During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. "

" The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things. "

" I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. "

" The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. "

" Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. "

" I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. "

" The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. "

" Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. "

" Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. "

" The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. "

" The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical. "

" Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. "

" Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. "

" It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. "

" From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny. "

" This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. "

" From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time. "

" I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers. "

" To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition. "

" Play is the work of childhood. "

" One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects. "

" With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct. "

" Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. "

" The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. "