Confidence or knowledge?

It is easier to feel confident about a “central” principle which the mind has not circumscribed with broad experience and penetrating observation.  And it is easier to doubt those principles one has circumscribed, given that we are more aware of the seamless experience of exclusive categories of knowledge. Let us set aside the word, “difficult” here, as being too light.  It is almost impossible to achieve the necessary: to choose self-doubt and insecurity over the pleasure of confidence.

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