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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. "