“Myself when young did eagerly frequent / Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument / About it and about”Omar Khayyam · Rubaiate · 1120 · catrenul 27
Whoever chases certainty among the learned comes home with doubts.
The verse describes a familiar intellectual biography: the young person runs from one authority to another, hears arguments on every side, and finds they contradict each other. The mechanism is known to anyone who has studied seriously: the more you read, the thinner the confident answers get. A student who begins with firm convictions and finishes university with more questions than before walks exactly this road.
Why it matters Comfort for those losing their certainties: doubt is a sign you thought seriously, not a failure.