Err Quotes

188 quotes by 158 authors

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou… — Walter Raleigh
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… — Thomas Jefferson
The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into… — Thomas Jefferson
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. — Plutarch
And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the… — Ezra Taft Benson
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. — Berton Averre
I'd always rather err on the side of openness. But there's a difference between optimum and maximum openness, and fixing that boundary is a judgment… — Warren G. Bennis
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. — Josh Jenkins
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. — Henry Spencer
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
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting… — Neal A. Maxwell
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… — Emmet Fox
Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case,… — Paulo Coelho
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and… — Galileo Galilei
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. — Georges Canguilhem
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… — Stephen Jay Gould
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. — Madame de Stael
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… — Caspar David Friedrich

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