Top 32 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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

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?

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.