Jean Piaget Quotes

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

Eighty percent of my job is to ask the question, 'If this were real, what would it look like?'

I'm a thinker.

If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

I want to get people thinking.

I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

If you're willing to put two thoughts into a picture then you're already ahead of the game.

The classic think-tank is supposed to be sitting in an attic thinking up grand ideas.

I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

I simply think things through, and I look at problems. One thing I pride myself on is the ability to connect unconnected thoughts and come up with new, unique thoughts.

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.