Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Doubt grows with knowledge.
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.
You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
The main battle is to make people realise that doubt is important. Doubt is good. The 'don't know' answer sometimes is the box you should tick, and it's about not being scared about that fact. Even the greatest minds don't know everything.
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.