Quote by John Stuart Mill

“This leads to the consideration of a third great division of names, into connotative and non-connotative, the latter sometimes, but improperly, called absolute.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Without expanding on the greater or lesser accuracy of a name which nobody, I should hope, can really be expected to understand, I will…

— Gustave Courbet

“All names have been omitted to prevent undeserved infamy...”

— Elle

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

— Andrew Hunt

The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no…

— Oliver Ellsworth

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

— Richard P. Feynman

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

— Anonymous

If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things

— Confucius

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things.

— Confucius

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a…

— Marcel Proust

“The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”

— Lao Tzu

“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