Judgment

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:

    “Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, has a conception of Pyrrhonism.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second- guessing in The New York Review of Books.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)