Top 32 Quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

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

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

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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.

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

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

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

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

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.