 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 250 pages
...consideration, to 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1846 - 320 pages
...consideration, to 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 - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...many instances of being obliged, by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions on important subjects, which I once thought right,...is, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt am I to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1849 - 322 pages
...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sect* in religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that whenever others differ from... | |
 | John Stanley (printer.) - Statesmen - 1849 - 178 pages
...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 the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 476 pages
...many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my ovvn judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - American literature - 1862 - 892 pages
...I have often been obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. I doubt, too, whether any other Convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1864 - 260 pages
...being obliged, by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on imporlant subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It B, therefore, that the older I grow, the more apt I am to + Our reasons for ascribing this speech to... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought to be right, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. " In these sentiments, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if there be such ; because... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1867 - 756 pages
...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. ... In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such. ...... | |
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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... 
