...many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. ... I cannot help expressing a wish that every member of the Convention who may still have objections...

...consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to he otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all...

...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise" (W9:607). In addition, it is also important to remember that at least part of his important political...

...presents his thinking: "I have experienced many instances of being obliged to change my opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more I am apt to doubt my own judgement of others."14 Jefferson would not have failed to take Franklin's...

...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...

...many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. In such an atmosphere one should not expect individual or collective preferences to be consistent between,...

...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men, indeed as well as most sects in religion, think...

...Instances of being oblig'd. by better Information or fuller Consideration. to change Opinions even on important Subjects. which I once thought right....the older I grow the more apt I am to doubt my own Judgement and to pay more Respect to the Judgement of others. Franklin's speech was reprinted. in whole...

...by quoting the words of Benjamin Franklin, in an address to the Constitutional Convention of 1787: '"[T]he older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my...and to pay more respect to the judgment of others'" (659). 328 HAND, LEARNED Ken Qormley REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING: Cox, Archibald. 1947. "Judge Learned...

...instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right,...I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all...