KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Jean Piaget Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Jean Piaget

Showing 11-20 of 46 Quotes by Jean Piaget

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

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


One of the most striking things one finds about the child under 7-8 is his extreme assurance on all subjects.

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

~Jean Piaget

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 9th, 1896

Died: September 16th, 1980

Links

Find Jean Piaget on Amazon

Related Authors

Wayne Dyer
Albert Ellis
Viktor E. Frankl
Sigmund Freud
Erich Fromm
Carl Jung
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Abraham Maslow

Popular Authors

Agatha Christie Dwight D. Eisenhower T. S. Eliot Katharine Hepburn Steve Jobs Yayoi Kusama Tony Robbins Mark Twain

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1737 - Thomas Paine

1880 - W. C. Fields

1954 - Oprah Winfrey

1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg

1761 - Albert Gallatin

1841 - Henry Morton Stanley

1843 - William Mckinley

1850 - Lawrence Hargrave

1860 - Anton Chekhov

1862 - Frederick Delius

Birthdays on January 29th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Environmental Friendship God Morning Religion Society Success