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

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" To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other. "

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

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

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

" The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly. "

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

" Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own. "

" Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. "

" Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Before playing with his equals, the child is influenced by his parents. He is subjected from his cradle to a multiplicity of regulations, and even before language he becomes conscious of certain obligations. "

" Play is the work of childhood. "

" Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. "

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

" The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order. "

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

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

" In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. "