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Jean Piaget Quotes

Swiss - Psychologist | August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980

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

Good Child Destiny View Bad Born

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

Practice Thought Argument Invention

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.

Life Education Why First Begin Head

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.

Knowledge History Moment Past More

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.

Child Own Things Only Like Actions

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

Reality More Knowing Systems Means

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

Nothing Never Psychology Logical

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.

Knowledge Words World Self Contact

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

Individual Abstraction Actions Based

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

Beginning Never Psychology Genetic

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.

Conversation Wrong Aim Right Answers

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.

Respect Rules Morality Individual

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