Jean Piaget Quotes

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

Knowledge is justified belief.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

I do think observing is important in learning.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'