Judgments

Examples

• Her judgments ought to be correct when they come, for they are often as tardy of delivery as a Lord Chancellor's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Our actions are more voluntary than our judgments; but we have not more liberty in the one than in the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• To be depriving themselves of the advantage of other eyes and other judgments, might be an evil even beyond the loss of present pleasure. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It is altogether too common to separate perceptions and even ideas from judgments. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Their minds construct a utopia--one in which all judgments are based on logical inference from syllogisms built on the law of mathematical probabilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The case is the same as in our judgments concerning all kinds of beauty, and tastes, and sensations. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• They are fine fellows--very fine fellows; with judgments matured by observation and reflection; and tastes refined by reading and study. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The case is here the same as in our judgments concerning external bodies. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And the cruelty of Lily's judgments smote upon her memory. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was pitiable that he, who knew the mixed motives on which social judgments depend, should still feel himself so swayed by them. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Grief and calamity they despise; they seem to regard them as the judgments of God on the lowly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Then come impeachments and judgments and trials of one another. Plato. The Republic.
• I ventured to say, My lady, we must all remember not to be hasty in our judgments on our inferiors--especially when they come from foreign parts. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Such judgments are not only common, but in many cases certain and infallible. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But nobody owned his mind, nor his faculties for seeing and hearing, and if he were going to form judgments he would form them afterwards. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They may have been mistaken: Roosevelt may be uncritical in his judgments. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Don't make moral judgments. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But in our judgments, like as in our doins, we mun bear and forbear. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Slow and belated judgments are sometimes the best judgments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And as to the judgments, which are caused by our judgments, they can still less bestow those moral qualities on the actions, which are their causes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• All this I have observed, in order to confirm by analogy, my explication of our judgments concerning cause and effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Without considering these judgments as the effects of custom on the imagination, we shall lose ourselves in perpetual contradiction and absurdity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This, however, I should submit to better judgments. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• But it applies equally well in judgments of moral and intellectual worth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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