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Names Quotes by Confucius
- On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong.…
- It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good…
- Although your father and mother are dead, if you propose to yourself any good work, only reflect how it will make their names illustrious, and…
- What is necessary is to rectify names.
- If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
- The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
- If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.
- The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not…
- If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things
More Names Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker