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

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" 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. "

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

" The child often sees only what he already knows. He projects the whole of his verbal thought into things. He sees mountains as built by men, rivers as dug out with spades, the sun and moon as following us on our walks. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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