The phrase "the
triumph of hope over experience" is a common expression that means people are often too optimistic about future events, despite evidence to the contrary.
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It's «
the triumph of hope over experience, just like a second marriage.»
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.»
The very question was
a triumph of hope over experience.
And second marriage is
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.
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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.