Ifs Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Knowing Knows Love Names Nature Poor richard
There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
I love using unique names, so I go to a baby names site on the Internet and use the unique names. Sometimes my names… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. — James Joyce 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 and names… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image