Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
ritual lulls our fear of disorder with the certainty of order.
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want to write, even though they find crafting sentences and paragraphs unpleasant. They hope there is a way to write without writing. I can tell you with certainty there isn’t one.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.
VIRTUES, n. pl. Certain abstentions.
Moral certainty is never more than probability.
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)
In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.
Few Christians understand the concept of eternal rewards, even thought the Lord dedicated a great deal of His precious time on earth to teaching about them. The one certainty is that our position in the Lord's kingdom will be inversely proportional to how we indulge ourselves in this lifetime.
It wasn't shared social status or ethnicity that brought Jesus' followers together either, nor was it total agreement on exactly who this Jesus character was - a prophet? The Messiah? The Son of God? No, there is one thing that connected all these dissimilar people together it was a shared sense of need: a hunger, a thirst, a longing. It was the certainty that, when Jesus said He came for the sick, this meant Jesus came for me.
It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.