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

W. H. Auden
Self, Feelings, Doubt
"Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("The Protestant Mystics"), (p. 51), 1973.
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.