I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Doubt your doubts before you doubt your beliefs.
To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
These days I am ruled by doubt, and that is a difficult place to write from.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.