I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology.

— Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget Quotes

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

— Jean Piaget

The child is a realist in every domain of thought, and it is therefore natural that in the moral sphere he should lay more stress on the external, tangible element than on the hidden motive.

— Jean Piaget

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— 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

The most developed science remains a continual becoming.

— Jean Piaget

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother’s poor mental health.

— Jean Piaget

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

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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

I could not think without writing.

— 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

What the genetic epistemology proposes is discovering the roots of the different varieties of knowledge, since its elementary forms, following to the next levels, including also the scientific knowledge.

— Jean Piaget

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

— Jean Piaget

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.

— Jean Piaget

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

— Jean Piaget

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

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During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.

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As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.

— Jean Piaget

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

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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

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.

— Jean Piaget
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