 | Benjamin Franklin - Autobiographical memory - 1837 - 356 pages
...change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt iny own judgment, and to pay more respect to the- judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 96 pages
...ehange opinions even on important subjeets, whieh I onee thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respeet to the judgment of others. Host men, indeed, as well as most seets in religion, think themselves... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1839 - 246 pages
...change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, hut found to he otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, thmk themselves... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1845 - 672 pages
...change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...change opinions even on important suhjects, which I once thought right, hut found to he otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I grow the more apt I am to douht my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...change opinion* even on important suhjects, which I once thought right, hut found to he otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt I am to douht my own. judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Moft men, indeed, as well... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 462 pages
...change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves... | |
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older... 
