Jean Piaget Quotes

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.

Jean Piaget

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

KnowledgeWordsWorldSelfContact

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Jill Tarter

LongAskWhereUsBeginsHappens

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Joan Baez

OrganizationViolenceNon-Violence

I'm still wearing Doc Martens. I'm sure that you can have a baby and wear Doc Martens, but... Maybe I'll be the first person to give birth in Doc Martens!

Andrea Riseborough

BabyYouPersonBirthFirstWear

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

John Mortimer

LifeDietMy LifeWorthThreeEat

I started Chipotle with the idea to create an experience that's fast - and not fast food.

Steve Ells

FoodExperienceFastCreateStarted

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Stephen Hawking

BeginningEndUniverseLongEdge

I'm not about trying to be out here fighting and shooting, stabbing and, you know, all that crap, man.

Tone Loc

ManFightingTryingYouKnowOut

After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.

Maryanne Wolf

BrainThinkLanguageBecomeBear

I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.

Mitt Romney

WorkPartyWillTryRepublican

I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.

Juan Felipe Herrera

WordsPeoplePoliticalSayHumanUs

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what they are taught in class does not match the world that they navigate daily.

Clint Smith

DailyChildrenPeopleWorldBlack

I train hard. A lot of people that I train with, they get blown away by how hard I'm able to train.

Bobby Lashley

PeopleTrainHardAwayGetAble

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