If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
“If we don’t have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.” — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too — David McKay Copy Share Image
A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things. — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them. ” — Thomas E. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine” — jamie delano Copy Share Image
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world,” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
