Top 100 To Err Quotes
#1. 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
#2. To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
James Joyce
#3. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
Diane Griffith
#4. To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer
#5. To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine
Howard Ruff
#6. To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#7. Twenty times better to err on the person than suspicious of everyone.
Arkady Strugatsky
#8. 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
#9. To err is human, to eat human is bear.
Jim Kamp
#10. It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice.
Pierre Corneille
#12. To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Robert Orben
#13. We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution.
Bill Vaughan
#15. To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.
Victor Hugo
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. To err is human - but it feels divine.
Mae West
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
Confucius
#23. To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on.
Vince Vaughn
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. To err is human, to forgive is divine.
Jo Nesbo
#33. To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.
Sidney Hook
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.
Lew Wasserman
#39. 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
#40. Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human
Hugh Prather
#44. To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Albert Ellis
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Kofi Annan
#52. To err is human," Amelia said, "to forgive, absolutely galling.
Lisa Kleypas
#53. 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
#54. 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
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Seneca.
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.
Friedrich Schiller
#64. To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins
Anonymous
#65. To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
Vittorio Alfieri
#66. To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
Doug Larson
#67. God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.
Sophie Swetchine
#68. For us to err, with the Bible in our hands, is the effect of pride, sloth, and carelessness.
Matthew Henry
#69. It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.
Saint Augustine
#70. To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
Berton Averre
#71. Error is to err, as blanket is to blank.
Jarod Kintz
#73. One would think wisdom brings one to err less, but logic dictates that wisdom is more often gained through our errors than through those choices which meet with simple conclusions.
Melissa McPhail
#74. To err is human, to forgive is divine ... but I'm only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I'm going to err towards beating you with this stick.
Mark Lawrence
#75. If toting the standard equipment is not what male or female, exactly what does?
well, duh, its barrettes.
At least thats what kids think it is your clothing, hairstyle, toy choice, favorite color.
Slippery stuff, that. You can see how perilously easy would be to err
Peggy Orenstein
#76. I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
Mark McKinnon
#77. My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side of mercy
Joan Bauer
#81. Imagine a different world, one in which people do not spend an inordinate amount of energy fuming against their fate each time they make a mistake ... though we all agree that to err is human, each of us individually believes that he or she is the exception ... Make a mistake? Not on my watch!
Veronique Vienne
#83. To err is human. To really screw up requires the root password." - UNKNOWN
Kevin Behr
#84. To err from the right path is common to mankind.
Sophocles
#86. It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
Alvin Toffler
#87. It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity ... Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
Saint John Chrysostom
#88. To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.
Confucius
#89. To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron)
I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
William P. Young
#91. To err is human, to accept full responsibility is to just run with it
Josh Stern
#92. To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope"
Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. "The Husband's Secret.
Alexander Pope
#93. You're not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.
Alexander Whyte
#94. If we claim only reasonable probability, it will be as much as men who love the truth can ever at any given moment hope to have within their grasp. Pretty surely it will be more than we could have had, if we were unconscious of our liability to err.
William James
#95. The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
Stephen Jay Gould
#96. They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.'
Nate Berkus
#97. Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
Charlotte Bronte
#98. 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
#99. Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
#100. Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
William Cowper
