 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1815 - 336 pages
...change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thdught ri^ht, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older I 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 of religion, think... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1818 - 566 pages
...to 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 of others. Most men indeed, :is well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 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 my own jndgment, and to pay more respect to the jndgment of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1822 - 272 pages
...obliged by better information, to clv.nge opinions which I once thought right. It is, therefore, ilvif 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 of reli^i.'", think themselves... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1825 - 324 pages
...important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore, that tha 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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 440 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... | |
 | United States - 1826 - 422 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 - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is, therefore, that the older 1 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 - American essays - 1834 - 312 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. Moat men, indeed, as well... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1837 - 552 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 of others. Most men, indeed, as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all... | |
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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... 
