Kenneth Lee Pike quotes

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 Lee 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. View quote
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Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. View quote
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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. View quote
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Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. View quote
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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. View quote
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The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. View quote
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I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it. View quote
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Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake. (Kenneth Lee Pike)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The detached observer's view is one window on the world. View quote
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Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. View quote
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. View quote
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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. View quote
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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. View quote
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The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. View quote
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God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis. View quote
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Nobody is as good as he thinks he is. (Kenneth Lee Pike)
Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual. View quote
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. View quote
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Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. View quote
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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning. View quote
Kenneth Lee Pike

Kenneth Lee Pike

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Occupation: American Sociologist
Born: June 9, 1912
Died: December 31, 2000
Quotes count: 32