31 Quotes by Kenneth Lee Pike

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

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

The deepest sins are camouflaged as holiness.

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

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.

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.

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

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.