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.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.