 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 788 pages
...It fell to Benjamin Franklin and James Madison to put the work of the convention into perspective. "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment," said the octogenarian Franklin. Not only was he astonished that a constitution that was the product... | |
 | Richard J. Ellis - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 340 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. ... I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention... | |
 | Carol Berkin - History - 2002 - 324 pages
...of this constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them [T]he 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... | |
 | Paul Downes - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 255 pages
...apparent unanimity. (Writings, 114o)*'1 The speech is eminently reasonable and explicitly self-deprecating ("the older I grow the more apt I am to doubt my own judgement and to pay more respect to the judgement of others"-17). What stands out, from a stylistic... | |
 | Gerry Mackie - Business & Economics - 2003 - 508 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. In such an atmosphere one should not expect individual or collective... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional history - 2003 - 808 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 - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 588 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... 
