Common Quote by Sophocles

To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

— Vittorio Alfieri

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so…

— Hosea Ballou

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

— Confucius

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

— Jean de La Fontaine

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

— Sophocles

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for…

— Charles Caleb Colton

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious.

— Carl Jung

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his…

— Charles Robert Maturin

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

— Thomas Jefferson