We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.

Agency presupposes choice.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.

There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance.

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

Understanding something in one way does not preclude understanding it in other ways.