„It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work… and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.“

— Vincent Van Gogh

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„Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present“
— Cassandra Clare
„One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„The good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense—which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance ("Good Readers and Good Writers", p. 3).“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.“
— C.G. Jung
„Ever from one who comes to-morrowMen wait their good and truth to borrow.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„A philosophy has no private store of knowledge or methods for attaining truth, so it has no private access to good. As it accepts knowledge and principles from those competent in science and inquiry, it accepts the goods that are diffused in human experience. It has no Mosaic or Pauline authority of revelation entrusted to it. But it has the authority of intelligence, of criticism of these common and natural goods.“
— John Dewey