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“Once you know the name of something, you understand it better. It no longer frightens you.”

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Book:Four of a Kind

Source: Four of a Kind

“Don’t confuse naming something with knowing it.”

Knowing Things Seeing Clearly Naming Things Gaining Understanding Digging Deeper Seeing The Essence

Author:Clifford Cohen

“Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain; As painfully to pore upon a book To seek the light of truth while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. Study me how to please the eye indeed By fixing it upon a fairer eye, Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heavens’ glorious sun, That will not be deep searched with saucy looks. Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others’ books. These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know naught but fame, And every godfather can give a name. a”

Knowledge Naming Things

Book:Love's Labour's Lost

Source: Love's Labour's Lost

“Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain; As painfully to pore upon a book To seek the light of truth while truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile; So ere you find where light in darkness lies Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes. Study me how to please the eye indeed By fixing it upon a fairer eye, Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, And give him light that it was blinded by. Study is like the heavens’ glorious sun, That will not be deep searched with saucy looks. Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others’ books. These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights, That give a name to every fixed star, Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are. Too much to know is to know naught but fame, And every godfather can give a name.”

Book Reading Knowledge Naming Things

Author:William Shakespeare

“For me, Christianity is not a genre. It's faith. The Gospel is not a genre either. It's faith. I definitely understand the semantics of naming things to give them some kind of distinction but I think my faith is pretty distinct. If you want to call it hip hop, essentially it is. That's the art form.”

Ifs Thinking Want Giving Kind Art Form Christianity Hip Hop Hips Genre Distinction Hops Semantics Naming Things

Author:LeCrae

“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”

Use Earth Names Sound Common Habit Mere Dust Buried Etymology Satanic Verses Naming Things

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”

Wisdom Names Chinese Proverb Wise Chinese Naming Things

Author:Confucius

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

Giving Names Lost Lovely Faculty Spades Sad Truth Naming Things

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays

“Even now, it's still hard for him to say it. I don't blame him. It's an icky word. Why couldn't whoever was in charge of naming things call cancer 'sugar' and sugar, 'cancer'? People might not eat so much of the stuff then. And it's so much more pleasant to die of sugar.”

People Stills Hard Might Dies Stuff Blame Cancer Pleasant Sugar Naming Things

Book:All These Lives

Source: All These Lives

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.”

Men Love Giving Should Use Action Funny Names Lost He Man Fit Humorous Lovely Faculty Compelled Quarrels Spades Sad Truth Naming Things

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.”

Ideas Matter Moving Courses Stars Term Objects Speech Balls Myth Invention Mathematical Describing Inventing Naming Things

Book:Tolkien: A Biography

Source: Tolkien: A Biography

“I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.”

Feels Beautiful Hours Half Alive Duty Journal Diaries Half Hours Beautiful Places Keeping A Journal Naming Things

Author:May Sarton

“Naming things, breaking through taboos and denial is the most dangerous, terrifying, and crucial work. This has to happen in spite of political climates or coercions, in spite of careers being won or lost, in spite of the fear of being criticized, outcast, or disliked. I believe freedom begins with naming things. Humanity is preserved by it.”

Believe Happens Political Humanity Lost I Believe Careers Dangerous Climate Denial Spite Crucial Taboo Coercion Outcast Naming Things

Author:Eve Ensler