Difficult Quote by Samuel Alexander

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Proper names are rigid designators.

— Saul Kripke

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

— Sara Bareilles

It's always easy to describe something complex by applying to it an already known label.

— Philippe Petit

One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its…

— Arthur Schuster

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book…

— Thomas George Bonney

I think we've seen a lot of examples of giving a name its own definition in the dot-com world. Amazon, Google, Yahoo - these…

— David Carson

“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.”

— John White

“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

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin