Kenneth L. Pike

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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#avoid #believe #guilt #led #pays

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#complex #extends #man #mind #more

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

#eyes #local #native #participant #scene

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#responsibility #truth #wake #without

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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#application #belief #development #fact #integrate

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

#created #methodology #nonverbal #organized #should

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? ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#begin #complex #could #his #how

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

#conform #god #i #i do #nature

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#coherence #disciplines #easily #facts #grant