32 Quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.