Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Live, Philosophy, Same

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Society, Change, Human

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
Kenneth L. Pike

Mind, Small, Study

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
Kenneth L. Pike

Life, God, Power

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Kenneth L. Pike

Universe, Language, Rules

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.
Kenneth L. Pike

Find, Whole, Universe

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.
Kenneth L. Pike

Science, Facts, Prepared

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
Kenneth L. Pike

Courage, Results, Continue

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.
Kenneth L. Pike

Science, True, Within

God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
Kenneth L. Pike

God, Cannot, Analysis

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.
Kenneth L. Pike

Important, Individual, Identity

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
Kenneth L. Pike

Philosophy, Choose, Pure

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike

Language, Meaning, Behavior

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Kenneth L. Pike

Conscience, Trouble, Clear

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
Kenneth L. Pike

Value, Granted, Universal

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.
Kenneth L. Pike

Language, Situation, Degree

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.
Kenneth L. Pike

Good, Nobody, Thinks

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike

Success, Failure, May

Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.
Kenneth L. Pike

Nature, Truth, Language

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
Kenneth L. Pike

View, Window, Detached

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
Kenneth L. Pike

Truth, Act, Guilt

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
Kenneth L. Pike

Different, Through, Eyes

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.
Kenneth L. Pike

Truth, Following, Wake

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
Kenneth L. Pike

Today, Often, Yesterday

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.
Kenneth L. Pike

Whole, Treat, Theory

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: June 9, 1912

Died: December 31, 2000

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