The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the… — W.H. Auden · Skopia

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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

1973

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Auden, W. H. "The Protestant Mystics." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

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