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Err in the direction of kindness. -- George Saunders
Err on the side of awesome. -- Brandon Sanderson
Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action -- J. Willard Marriott
Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt. -- Jim Lovell
Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean.... -- Brian Jacques
Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness. -- George Saunders
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
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different. -- Ralph Boston
The cautious seldom err. -- Confucius
To err is human; to forgive, divine. -- Alexander Pope
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. -- Doug Larson
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. -- Madame de Stael
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. -- Mahatma Gandhi
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. -- Alvin Toffler
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. -- Robert Orben
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. -- Vittorio Alfieri
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. -- Plutarch
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. -- Carl von Clausewitz
I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader. -- Mark McKinnon
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments. -- Leonardo da Vinci
If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery. -- Michael King
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
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. -- Johann Rupert
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
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
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little. -- James Ellroy
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. -- Hunter S. Thompson
It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now. -- Elon Musk
Nature itself cannot err -- Thomas Hobbes
I err therefore I am. -- Saint Augustine
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. -- Franklin P. Adams
To err is human, to purr feline. -- Robert Byrne
To a misogynist: To err is woman. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To err is human, to forgive supine. -- S. J. Perelman
To err is human, to forgive, divine. -- Alexander Pope
The wisest of the wise may err. -- Aeschylus
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err. -- John Milton
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent. -- Berton Averre
To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary. -- Lights
Man must strive, and striving he must err. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. -- John Dryden
Those who doubt themselves most generally err least. -- Samuel Richardson
To err is human, to forgive is divine. -- Helen Prejean
To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. -- Victor Hugo
To err is human, but it feels divine. -- Mae West
To err is human, to purr is feline. -- Robert Byrne
Mankind led on by gods err all too easily. -- Euripides
To err is human - but it feels divine. -- Mae West
To err is nature, to rectify error is glory. -- George Washington
When in doubt, err on the side of generosity. -- Ping Fu
Outlaw all abortions; err on the side of life. -- Mike Huckabee
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. -- Euripides
They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers. -- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. -- Benjamin Franklin
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err. -- Thomas Carlyle
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. -- Georges Canguilhem
We must err , do so on the side of audacity -- Sue Monk Kidd
To err from the right path is common to mankind. -- Sophocles
To err is human. To cover it up is weasel. -- Scott Adams
To err is human, to forgive is against company policy. -- Lew Wasserman
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. -- Tacitus
If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln. -- Theodore Roosevelt
To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error. -- Confucius
Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine -- Diane Griffith
While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on. -- Vince Vaughn
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil. -- Seneca the Younger
To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art. -- Anthony Marais
I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention. -- Edward Blake
If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy. -- Spencer W. Kimball
To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle. -- Sophocles
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark. -- Ovid
To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine -- Howard Ruff
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished. [Lat., Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi.] -- Horace
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. -- Alexander Pope
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. -- Friedrich Schiller
The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err. -- William Shakespeare
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Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed. -- Confucius
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. -- Saint Augustine
To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life. -- James Joyce
Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth. -- Galileo Galilei
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life. -- Mac Thornberry
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human -- Hugh Prather
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err. -- George Chapman
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote. -- John Milton
Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy. -- Martin Freeman
Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything. -- Michael Douglas
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. -- Henry Spencer
If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom. -- Kofi Annan
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. -- Charlotte Bronte
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few. -- John Dryden
To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe. -- Sidney Hook
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. -- Josh Jenkins
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men. -- Pierre Corneille
To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live, -- Pat Tillman
errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical. -- Seneca
But every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion and education); reason itself does not err. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. -- Israel Albert Horowitz
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery. -- Joseph Campbell
Don't think that some tomorrow you'll see God's Light. You see it now or err in darkest night. -- Angelus Silesius
To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic. -- Albert Ellis
We've found some things that are suspicious in nature, and we're going to err on the side of caution. -- Bill Vaughan
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself; you will never err if you listen to your own suggestions. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We should greatly err, if we endeavoured to force all ancient nature into a close comparison with existing operations. -- Roderick Murchison
It is an imprudence common to kings to listen to too much advice and to err in their choice. -- Pierre Corneille
God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant. -- Sophie Swetchine
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive. -- Saint Augustine
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. -- Smiley Blanton
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off. -- Thomas Paine

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