Zitate und Sprüche von Jean Piaget

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

Play is the work of childhood.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Not everything has to make sense. It's totally fine when it's fun.

A good player knows how to win the game, a good character knows how to lose it, while smiling.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

It's important to have balance in your life between work and play.

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

Life is more fun if you play games.

Rules are good. Rules help control the fun.

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

We humans love to play. Over the last 300,000 years, we have come up with thousands, maybe millions of games. We play to appease the gods. We play to push our boundaries and hone ourselves to perfection. We play anywhere. On sand. On snow. Soil. Water. Tarmac. In these playgrounds, we reveal our inner selves. Our joy. Our shame. Our glory. And our pain. But the origin of play is anything but fun. Play has evolved from our fight to survive. If we didn't play, we would not be who we are today.

Because there's no way watching it can be more fun than playing it yourself.

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.

As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.

Few people think, but many want to rule.

You do your best thinking when you're not thinking at all.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

It is probably true quite generally that in the history of human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.

Stuff all my problems in that bong and I’m puffing strong
I been locked in my way of thinking now my cuffs are gone

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

What we think, we become.

I have always worried about things more than I should.

Mr. President, Ukraine did not "start" this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.