Quote by Gustave Courbet

“In this world one must have a name; it prevents confusion, even when it does not establish identity. Some, though, are known by numbers,…

— Ambrose Bierce

“A name is a powerful thing. It sets one apart and gives significance.”

— Jessica Khoury

“Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.”

— Nihad Sirees

“The most important thing, the first thing, in understanding anything is to get the name right. If you and I were to have a…

— John Médaille

“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no…

— Anna Quindlen

“Names are deeply meaningful to your brain, and misleading names add chaos to your code.”

— Andrew Hunt

“Your name could mean to excel and you could be useless and crap at everything. You can put a name on anything, call it…

— Katja Millay

“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...”

— Joann Sfar

“A name isn't important. It doesn't make you, you make it.”

— Sean DeLauder

“Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them…

— Sara Zarr

“There are few things more powerful than a name. A single phrase that somehow becomes a symbol for an entire existence.”

— Lance Conrad

“… that exasperating quality for which we have no name, which certainly is not accuracy, and which is quite the opposite of judgement, yet…

— Hilaire Belloc