Jean Piaget Quotes

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.

Jean Piaget

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: psychologist
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: August 9, 1896 - September 16, 1980

Topics

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I never wanted to be a pundit.

Robert MacNeil

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There are gay and lesbian people in all walks of life, in all different types of professions. I just happen to be a gay man who sings in a heavy metal band.

Rob Halford

LifeManPeopleGayHeavy Metal

I have only a couple friends, but I've known them since, like, you know, fourth grade or something. I've never changed anything about my little group of friends. I think if you're just smart, and you have the friends who care about you most, that's really all that matters.

Rob Kardashian

SmartThinkCareFriendsYouKnow

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

Ruben Hinojosa

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Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Miguel Syjuco

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I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

Mick Foley

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As I occasionally survey the pack of sycophantic shih tzus in the Washington press corps, wriggling on their bellies to kiss the feet of those in power, I feel plumb discouraged about the future of journalism.

Molly Ivins

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It's important to be involved in different things for me.

Juergen Teller

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With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

LearningPeopleUniqueKindCuba

When we look at policy, it's important we make sure that it's up to date and reflective of the way the world works today - and where the world is heading in the future.

Suzan DelBene

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To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Paul Stanley

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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Paul Tsongas

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