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

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

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

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

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

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
Kenneth L. Pike

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

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

We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
Kenneth L. Pike

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.
Kenneth L. Pike

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

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Kenneth L. Pike