How Much More Precious Is A Little

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

Chance... In The Accommodation Peculiar To Sensorimotor Intelligence, Plays The Same Role As In Scientific Discovery. It Is Only Useful To The Genius And Its Revelations Remain Meaningless To The Unskilled.

The Relations Between Parents And Children Are Certainly Not Only Those Of Constraint. There Is Spontaneous Mutual Affection, Which From The First Prompts The Child To Acts Of Generosity And Even Of Self-sacrifice, To Very Touching Demonstrations Which Are In No Way Prescribed. And Here No Doubt Is The Starting Point For That Morality Of Good Which We Shall See Developing Alongside Of The Morality Of Right Or Duty, And Which In Some Persons Completely Replaces It.

The Child Who Defines A Lie As Being A "naughty Word" Knows Perfectly Well That Lying Consists In Not Speaking The Truth. He Is Not, Therefore, Mistaking One Thing For Another, He Is Simply Identifying Them One With Another By What Seems To Us A Quaint Extension Of The Word "lie".

To Understand Is To Invent.