“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.”

“Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.”

“Ah, well..." I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd said I couldn't, or shouldn't, judge her. It was my not forgiving her that irked him-it was my intolerance of her intolerance that bugged him.”

“I know everything I need to know already," Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,"See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet." "So tell me," said Rigg. "I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...”

“Great Mother!I can't believe it!Now I understand."(Mamut)"I do not understand," Ayla said”

“My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.”