Sentences with phrase «hope over experience»

The very question was a triumph of hope over experience.

But to act on those feelings would be to trust hope over experience, a foolish choice indeed.

And second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience..

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It's «the triumph of hope over experience, just like a second marriage.»

It's a pretty clear picture of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde famously remarked that a second marriage is «the triumph of hope over experience,» but both partners in this case seem mature enough to cope.

In the words of the 19th century Irish poet Oscar Wilde, it is «the triumph of hope over experience.»

«Ruth Davidson has made a good start,» said one Downing Street insider, «but to rely on the Scottish Conservatives contributing anything substantial to the Westminster party after the next election would be a triumph of hope over experience».

But, given the history of studies on this subject, undertaking two more may well simply fulfill the cynical quip about second marriages: «the triumph of hope over experience.»

· «Improving Education, A Triumph of Hope Over Experience» by Rob Coe, Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring

It was akin to the Samuel Johnson quote about second marriages: «a triumph of hope over experience.»

While I'm mostly indexed, I do own some dividend - growth stocks (yes, you can call it the triumph of hope over experience, but at least it is only a portion of our portfolio).

Second marriages, Dr. Johnson reminds us, sometimes represent the triumph of hope over experience.

Some call this a triumph of hope over experience.

Canada's federal government, in a pledge that skeptical climate campaigners called a triumph of hope over experience, promised on Friday to reverse years of emissions growth and get its global warming pollution back on a downward slope.

Commenting on second marriages, Samuel Johnson, who is quoted by his biographer James Boswell in 1791, called them the «triumph of hope over experience.»

The second timers, as has been said, are the triumph of hope over experience.