Kenneth Lee Pike Quotes

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

  Kenneth Lee 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 Lee Pike

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

  Kenneth Lee 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 Lee Pike

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

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• Today’s practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday’s theory.

  Kenneth Lee 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 Lee Pike

• There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

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

  Kenneth Lee Pike

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

  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.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• 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 Lee Pike

• The detached observer’s view is one window on the world.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

  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.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

• Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

Kenneth Lee Pike (32)

Birth:	9th June, 1912
Death:	31st December, 2000
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anthropologist

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