Intelligence is not what you know but what you do when you don't know.
L'intelligence n'est pas ce que l'on sait, mais ce que l'on fait quand on ne sait pas.
Psychologists
Jean Piaget
Swiss developmental psychologist (1896-1980). A malacologist who turned to cognition while scoring Binet tests, his four-stage theory made him the 20th century's second most cited psychologist.
View this figure's profile
Jean Piaget's Other Quotes
Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual.
To understand is to invent.
Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... but for me, education means making creators. You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.
When you teach a child something, you forever take away from him the pleasure and benefit of discovering it for himself.
Related Quotes
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
It is impossible to govern the universe without God and the Bible.
-- George Washington
What do I care about my chatter from yesterday?
-- Konrad Adenauer
We are all in the same boat.
-- Konrad Adenauer
The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
-- Margaret Thatcher