Quotes by Kenneth L. Pike

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

“There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.”

“A theory may be viewed rather broadly as a statement purporting to describe, or to explain, or to help one to understand a phenomenon. More narrowly, a theory may present a claim of truth, or assert the presence of relationships between phenomena, or predict the occurrence of phenomena.”

“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.”

“Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.”

“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 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.”

“When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.”

“To equate truth with magnification is to abandon scientific discourse.”

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

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

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

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.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

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.