Judgment
Judgement (or judgment) is the evaluation of evidence in the making of a decision. The term has four distinct uses:
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Famous quotes containing the word judgment:
“My beauty, though but mean,
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise.
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I [Boswell] ... insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love like being enlivened with champagne. JOHNSON. “No, Sir; admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)