beyond the pale

Sometimes I write something and then when I read it afterwards, I think that I didn't really make the point I wanted to make. I hinted at it, but I didn't clearly state it. I didn't make it clear, and what I wrote could have a range of meanings. 

I wrote something yesterday on Medium, and the main thing I was getting at is that when you know for sure that someone in a position of trust or authority in your life is wrong about something, that's valuable knowledge - it represents a kind of certainty that we rarely have. 

And it always presages a greater truth.