Top 100 Err's Quotes
#1. I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.
Mark Twain
#2. Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
Martin Freeman
#3. To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.
Victor Hugo
#4. Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Euripides
#5. few sometimes may know, when thousands err
John Milton
#6. But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.
Kurt Godel
#7. Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes ... but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
George Saunders
#8. When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.'
Benjamin R. Smith
#9. My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.
Melissa Rivers
#10. A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.
Jonathan Rauch
#11. We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#12. To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.
Sidney Hook
#13. To err is human, to forgive is divine.
Jo Nesbo
#14. Nothing can be said: nothing sure, nothing probable, nothing honest. Better to err through omission than through commission: better to refrain from steering the fate of others, since it is already so difficult to navigate one's own.
Primo Levi
#15. If honor were reserved only for those who never err, none of us would be worthy, Rain answered.
C.L. Wilson
#16. It is not good to give money to everyone who begs; give food or clothing instead. They may misuse the money we give for drinks and drugs. We should not give them a chance to err. Try not to see them as beggars, but as God himself.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#17. The Bible can no more fail, falter, or err, than God himself can fail, falter, or err.
Kevin DeYoung
#18. The only difference between a wise man and a fool was in the magnitude of his mistakes. To err was human, and the smarter and more powerful you were, the greater the scope of your screwup.
Tom Clancy
#19. We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
Roderick Murchison
#21. I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
Edward Blake
#23. I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.
Thomas Jefferson
#24. Everyone can err, but Stalin considered that he never erred, that he was always right. He never acknowledged to anyone that he made any mistake, large or small, despite the fact that he made not a few mistakes in the matter of theory and in his practical activity.
Nikita Khrushchev
#25. It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#26. Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
Saint Augustine
#27. To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
Victor Hugo
#29. I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
Taylor Schilling
#30. To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope"
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Alexander Pope
#31. The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge.
George Eliot
#32. Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
John Dryden
#33. Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
Angelus Silesius
#34. I am in the valley of prayer on the issue of gay marriage, and I will err on the side of inclusiveness and not exclusion. I'm going to follow Jesus and say, Whosoever will, let them come. And I'm going to extend rights to all of God's children and if I am wrong, God will have to judge me.
Joseph Lowery
#35. I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
Agatha Christie
#36. I was somebody's boyfriend now. This would mean a lot of trial and error. But she was who I wanted to try and err with.
Rob Sheffield
#37. There's no rule book that tells you how to act in every given situation in life, you know? So what I always say is that it's always better to err on the side of kindness. That's the secret. If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.
R.J. Palacio
#38. I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.
Mark Romanek
#39. THE ROAD TO WISDOM
The road to wisdom?
Well, it's plain
and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
Piet Hein
#40. To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.
Sophocles
#41. Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
#42. The wisest of the wise may err.
Aeschylus
#43. That which is original creates a new origin. That which is original, by definition, must stray off the previously worn paths. It must wander; it must err.
Blake Charlton
#44. It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy.
Rafael Sabatini
#45. To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.
Victor Hugo
#46. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
Lew Wasserman
#48. When it comes to screening, a doctor who says 'Let's err on the side of caution,' may actually err on the side of reckless ignorance and grave harm.
Otis Webb Brawley
#49. Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!
Thabo Mbeki
#50. To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up.
Jonathan Tropper
#51. It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#52. If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.
Stefanie Powers
#53. As our God Most High fights, we flourish. As err his people flourish, our God strikes the killing blow. The battles in heaven are seen on earth, and the battles of earth do not escape the notice of heaven. We flourish when we are one with each other and with heaven's purpose.
Lisa Bevere
#54. I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.
Raymond E. Feist
#55. My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'
Robert Kiyosaki
#56. Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life.
Mike Huckabee
#57. I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther
#58. To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#59. Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely? That
Plato
#60. When in doubt, err on the side of generosity.
Ping Fu
#61. Doctors are fantastic, but they err on the side of caution. But you can push yourself. You're not going to die from pain.
Tony McCoy
#62. To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine
Howard Ruff
#63. To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer
#64. Every startup is small at the start. Every monopoly dominates a large share of its market. Therefore, every startup should start with a very small market. Always err on the side of starting too small.
Peter Thiel
#65. Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.
Arkady Strugatsky
#67. There should of course be left a field of work for the sake of experiment but at all times one must remember that there will always remain open a possibility of err.
Sri Aurobindo
#69. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
Diane Griffith
#70. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
James Joyce
#71. Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
Joseph Campbell
#72. I could have blamed it on the intoxication of youth.
Others might find fault on just intoxication.
My parents would say that it was an act of plain stupidity.
Reality would point out that it was Thursday night at college and the youth are prone to err.
Mara Joaquin
#73. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir
Frank Herbert
#74. If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.
Sue Monk Kidd
#75. No guy is ever gonna be like, 'Well, I'm not into her because she just doesn't seem into me!' That's never been a complaint for why a guy doesn't like a girl. Ever! That's an attractive thing, so always err on the side of aloofness.
Nikki Glaser
#76. Mankind led on by gods err all too easily.
Euripides
#77. To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.
Victor Hugo
#78. The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.
John Ruskin
#79. To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.
Vince Vaughn
#80. I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing
Ellen G. White
#81. Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
Confucius
#82. You're taught from a very young age that you shouldn't get too big for your britches, so I tend to err way too much on the side of 'Nothing means anything.'
Timothy Simons
#83. I will be merciful, and I will believe in people. If I am to err, I will err on the side of mercy. I will give people the benefit of the doubt. I will bend, but not break, in order to give people the opportunity to grow and develop.
David K. Bernard
#84. To err is human - but it feels divine.
Mae West
#85. By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#86. All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
Blaise Pascal
#87. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Mahatma Gandhi
#89. When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.
Walter Isaacson
#90. Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it ... Err in the direction of kindness.
George Saunders
#92. Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.
[Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.]
Horace
#93. We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
Bill Vaughan
#94. To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
#96. It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
Pierre Corneille
#97. To err is human, to eat human is bear.
Jim Kamp
#98. There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.
M. Night Shyamalan
#99. It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in conversations a deux. But those who dismiss him as shallow because his rhetoric was fustian err.
William Manchester
#100. Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
Frances Wright
