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Jonathan Renshaw

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

humility, ignorance, knowledge

Jonathan Renshaw

If you care about people and you really love them, you should get angry at the things that put them in danger or hurt them.

Jonathan Renshaw

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

Jonathan Renshaw

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer…A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

answer, better, contemplate, end, good, mystery, thing

Jonathan Renshaw

Uh, I really didn’t mean to disturb you.”I sincerely hope that is untrue. If you arrived here with no objective capable of disturbing me then you arrived with no objective at all, and you will have succeeded in disturbing me without purpose.

disturb, hope, meaning, need, objective, purpose

Jonathan Renshaw

Bit of a limp conclusion if you ask me,” Osric growled. “You academics are always so timid with your words. Your conclusion sounds like a different form of the question.” “And so it is, Osric,” Fergal said with a chuckle. “Slightly whittled, sharper, but it is still a question. In time it will be sharp enough to impale the answer.

academical, questions

Jonathan Renshaw

Maybe it’s the quiet,” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

Jonathan Renshaw

Unless the inquiry has been so exhaustive as to explore every possibility, the lack of evidence should never be used to ground a statement of fact. Unlikelihood certainly, but no more. A prematurely assumed fact blocks further inquiry.

doubt, evidence, fact, inquiry, possibility, possible, premature, question, test

Jonathan Renshaw

Too fearful to intervene and hold back the tormenter, she was pleading instead with the victim to be more submissive. It was a solution that would resolve the conflict while entrenching the problem. Aedan didn’t have the words to understand, but he could feel the wrongness of it.

abuse, injustice, victim

Jonathan Renshaw

Yes, I’m sure [the princess] thinks daily of a delinquent midget apprentice growing up to claim her hand ahead of all the nobles and princes of the realm. What could any of them possibly give that you don’t have, except titles, land, wealth and all that.

apprentice, claim, desire, dream, land, love, marry, midget, noble, prince, princess, realm, riches, think, wealth

Jonathan Renshaw

You!’ Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

anger, angry, attention, boy, boys, men, mischief, name, tone, yell, you

Jonathan Renshaw

How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?” “Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations,” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.