32 Quotes by Kenneth L. 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.

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

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

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.

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

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?

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

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.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.