Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle t

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. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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