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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
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.
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.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. — © Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
Man must strive, and striving he must err.
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
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
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.
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
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
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.
When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.
[Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.] — © Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie. [Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; wenn ich luge, nicht.]
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.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
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)
I think we usually err on the side of giving players a lot of confidence and freedom within the motion to make plays and make reads and make decisions.
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.
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
You're certainly aware of your strengths and limitations, but I'd say I probably err on the side of trying to go too far and then get disappointed with myself and how it turns out.
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.
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night.
God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
I cannot believe in an eternity of hell. I hope God will forgive me if I err; but in this matter I cannot say, "Lord help my unbelief."
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.
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.
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.
I'll always err on the side of art for art's sake.
I guess I tend to see divine appointments everywhere. I am always on the alert for opportunities. So I prefer to err on the side of witnessing too often than not enough.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of... I mean, there's supportive, and then there's just full-on over-hovering.
For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.
While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.
When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I'm afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.
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.
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company. — © Caspar David Friedrich
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
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.
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.
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.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
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.
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.
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.'
Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.
I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.
Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack 'visibility.' But where the market can err is in confusing uncertainty with risk.
Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness. — © Tami Hoag
Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.
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.
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.
It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.
Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.
All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.
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