Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Nobody is as good as he thinks he is. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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