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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.
— Jean Piaget
Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.
— Jean Piaget
Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.
— Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
— Nancy Willard
The most developed science remains a continual becoming
— Jean Piaget
Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
— Jean Piaget
Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
— Jean Piaget
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
— Jean Piaget
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
— Jean Piaget
We learn more when we are compelled to invent.
— Jean Piaget
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
— Jean Piaget
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
— Jean Piaget
Egocentrism appears to us as a form of behavior intermediate between purely individual and socialized behavior.
— Jean Piaget
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
— Jean Piaget
To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
— Jean Piaget
Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.
— Jean Piaget
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.
— Jean Piaget
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
— Jean Piaget
Play is the work of childhood.
— Jean Piaget
If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.
— Jean Piaget
The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.
— Jean Piaget
From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny.
— Jean Piaget
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.
— Jean Piaget
One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.
— Jean Piaget
In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
— Jean Piaget
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
— Jean Piaget
I could not think without writing.
— Jean Piaget
To understand is to invent.
— Jean Piaget
Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.
— Jean Piaget