Jean Piaget Reality Quotations

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

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

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

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

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