naming, n.All

Naming is the most important part of invention. In order to create new things, it is always enough only to create new names and estimations and probabilities.

Naming is the idea that to call is not originally to name, but the other way around: Naming is a kind of calling.

Harry S. Truman's middle name was actually just "S."

In Denmark, citizens have to select baby names from a list of 7,000 government-approved names.

Naming is clarifying. To learn an appropriate name for what was dim and vague (and that refuses to condense into definite form) clears up and crystallizes. Naming somehow puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

Eleven of the 50 U.S. states are named after an actual person.

Naming is to wait for something in the place you think it will pass.

Naming is power — man is the highest animal because man does the classifying.

Naming is vital to wisdom — the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Naming is a human prejudice.

Naming is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual.