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:

    “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)

    “Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”
    —Hippocrates (c. 460–370 B.C.)

    “I hold the value of life is to improve one’s condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)