Top 100 To Err Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.
Joseph Campbell
#4. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
James Joyce
#5. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
Diane Griffith
#6. 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
#7. To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer
#8. To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine
Howard Ruff
#9. 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
#10. Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely? That
Plato
#11. To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#12. 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
#13. My family wasn't rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, 'Err on the side of caution.'
Robert Kiyosaki
#14. Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.
Arkady Strugatsky
#15. 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
#16. To err is human, to eat human is bear.
Jim Kamp
#17. It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
Pierre Corneille
#19. To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
#20. We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
Bill Vaughan
#22. To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.
Victor Hugo
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. To err is human - but it feels divine.
Mae West
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
Confucius
#30. To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.
Vince Vaughn
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
Saint Augustine
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#40. We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations.
Roderick Murchison
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. To err is human, to forgive is divine.
Jo Nesbo
#45. To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.
Sidney Hook
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err.
Kurt Godel
#51. Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
Martin Freeman
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
Lew Wasserman
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
#61. 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
#62. If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee.
Epictetus
#63. For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#64. Her characters tend to err when they reject the grubby and complex circumstances of everyday life for abstract and radical notions. They thrive when they work within the rooted spot, the concrete habit, the particular reality of their town and family.
David Brooks
#65. Let us be merciful in our mental judgments of our brothers and sisters, for, in truth, we are all one, and the more deeply they seem to err, the more urgent is the need for us to help them with the right thought, and so make it easier for them to get free.
Emmet Fox
#66. A dog to vomit does turn,
A fool to folly but return,
The wise err and learn,
Gaining from each burn.
Munindra Misra
#67. When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee.
Israel Albert Horowitz
#68. I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human
Hugh Prather
#69. To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Albert Ellis
#70. It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.
John Kessel
#71. To err is common
To all men, but the man who having erred
Hugs not his errors, but repents and seeks
The cure, is not a wastrel nor unwise.
Sophocles
#72. I do not belong to anyone! Certainly not to a self-centered, brute of man, err ... being or whatever it is you are, person! she fumbled.
Madison Thorne Grey
#73. 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
#74. Hello, IT ... Have you tried turning it off and on again? ... OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing? ... Yeah, you need to turn it on ... Err, the button turns it on ... Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you? ... No, not on clothes ... I'm sorry, are you from the past?
Graham Linehan
#75. I experienced in myself a certain capacity for judging which I have doubtless received from God, like all the other things that I possess; and as He could not desire to deceive me, it is clear that He has not given me a faculty that will lead me to err if I use it aright.
Rene Descartes
#76. To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#77. Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.
Arthur W. Pink
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. 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
#82. If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Kofi Annan
#83. To err is human," Amelia said, "to forgive, absolutely galling.
Lisa Kleypas
#84. Men are born to sin ... What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.
Sharon Kay Penman
#85. Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
William Gilmore Simms
#86. 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
#87. The mistakes of doctors are innumerable. They err as a rule out of optimism as to the treatment, and pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcel Proust
#88. One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. Sometimes my need to love hurts
myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain ... To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.
Jon Krakauer
#92. It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#94. With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#95. Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Seneca.
#96. This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.
Dean Koontz
#97. Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.
Douglas Brinkley
#98. Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.
Friedrich Schiller
#99. To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins
Anonymous
#100. I study the chessboard and concede defeat.
"You can gain yourself in five moves" says the Colonel. "Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until the final battle is over.
Haruki Murakami
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