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title: "20 Names Things Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 20 Names Things quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Names Things sayings and thoughts."
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> [“We lose names of things. Then the things they named.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianne-boruch/we-lose-names-of-things-then-the-things-they-named/)

[Marianne Boruch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianne-boruch/)

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> [“gave their (right) names to things without seeing them;”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laozi/gave-their-right-names-to-things-without-seeing-them/)

[Laozi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laozi/)

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> [I can't remember names and things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-philip/i-can-t-remember-names-and-things/)

[Prince Philip](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-philip/)

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> [Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angela-carter/losing-their-names-these-things-underwent-a-process-of-uncreation/)

[Angela Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angela-carter/)

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> [If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-linnaeus/if-you-do-not-know-the-names-of-things-the-knowledge-of-them-is-lost/)

[Carl Linnaeus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-linnaeus/)

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> [And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saul-bellow/and-i-m-convinced-that-knowing-the-names-of-things-braces-people-up/)

[Saul Bellow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saul-bellow/)

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> [“If we don’t have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-rothfuss/if-we-don-t-have-impressive-sounding-names-for-things-no-one-will/)

[Patrick Rothfuss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-rothfuss/)

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> [Some people think that if they change the names of things, the things themselves will have changed, too](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mckay/some-people-think-that-if-they-change-the-names-of-things-the-things/)

[David McKay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mckay/)

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> [A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-kenyon/a-poet-s-job-is-to-find-a-name-for-everything-to-be-a-fearless-finder/)

[Jane Kenyon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-kenyon/)

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> [“Because I do not know the names of things, I do not express them. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-e-kennedy/because-i-do-not-know-the-names-of-things-i-do-not-express-them/)

[Thomas E. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-e-kennedy/)

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> [“People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-delano/people-should-learn-the-names-of-things-they-re-more-important-when/)

[jamie delano](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-delano/)

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> [We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laozi/we-desire-to-understand-the-world-by-giving-names-to-the-things-we/)

[Laozi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laozi/)

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> [It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/it-is-a-sad-truth-but-we-have-lost-the-faculty-of-giving-lovely-names-3/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-names-are-the-first-things-to-go-after-the-breath-has-gone-and/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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> [Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that names are the only things that exist in the world. Maybe that's true, but the problem is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-pelevin/ludwig-wittgenstein-once-said-that-names-are-the-only-things-that/)

[Victor Pelevin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-pelevin/)

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> [Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/galileo-galilei/names-and-attributes-must-be-accommodated-to-the-essence-of-things/)

[Galileo Galilei](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/galileo-galilei/)

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> [“Are names more properly said to be the names of things, or of our ideas of things? The first is the expression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/are-names-more-properly-said-to-be-the-names-of-things-or-of-our/)

[John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/)

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> [“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/it-is-a-sad-truth-but-we-have-lost-the-faculty-of-giving-lovely-names-2/)

[Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/)

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> [“knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/knowing-the-names-of-things-is-a-way-to-pay-respect-to-the-beauty-of/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

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> [The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/the-names-for-things-don-t-come-first-words-stagger-after-hopelessly/)

[Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/)

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