In Genetic Epistemology, As In Developmental Psychology,

Children Have Real Understanding Only Of That Which They Invent Themselves, And Each Time That We Try To Teach Them Too Quickly, We Keep Them From Reinventing It Themselves.

Intelligence Is What You Use When You Don't Know What To Do.

Before Games Are Played In Common, No Rules In The Proper Sense Can Come Into Existence. Regularities And Ritualized Schemas Are Already There, But These Rites, Being The Work Of The Individual, Cannot Call Forth That Submission To Something Superior To The Self Which Characterizes The Appearance Of Any Rule.

During The Earliest Stages Of Thought, Accommodation Remains On The Surface Of Physical As Well As Social Experience.

I Have Always Detested Any Departure From Reality, An Attitude Which I Relate To My Mother's Poor Mental Health.