Room for Doubt: When it comes to trust, what are we looking for?

“It is not that some things are not worth saying about: “This is absolutely true.” It is that the posture that spoke most clearly to me, at least, was one of agnostic humility even while holding a firm belief, opinion, or set of convictions. There was, in other words, room for doubt. To me, this made the possibility of truth worth investigating, as a process of learning together, rather than a top-down, authoritarian mandate.”