Charlse Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is a largely forgotten American philosopher associated with the Pragmatic school that arose in the late 19th century. Here's something he wrote that maight be worth considering:
"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."
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