We are all a people in need. We are not perfect. We are not machines. We make mistakes. We need grace. We need compassion. We need help at times. We need other people. And that's okay. — Jamie Tworkowski
We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore. — John Trudell
Your job is not to be perfect. Your job is only to be human. — Jacqueline Novogratz
To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live. — Pat Tillman
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. — Robert Orben
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. — Mahatma Gandhi
To err is human, to forgive is divine. — Helen Prejean
To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary. — Lights
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri
To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. — Victor Hugo
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. — Josh Jenkins
Human Error Quotes
The chief cause of human errors is to be found in the prejudices picked up in childhood. — Rene Descartes
Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination. — Gretchen Rubin
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. — Voltaire
It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error. — Janet Coleman
All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. — Franz Kafka
Human error accounts for ~85% of auto accidents and fatalities. We believe that data will convince regulators that human-driven vehicles are weapons of mass destruction. They cause 35-40,000 deaths per year in the US and more than 1.25 million deaths globally. — Cathie Wood
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change.
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. — Howard Aiken
Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible. — Jacob Bronowski
Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance. — Magnus Hirschfeld
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. — Alveda King
Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power ... but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God, and not by man ... Therefore we declare, state, define and pronounce that it is altogether necessary to salvation for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pontiff. — Pope Boniface VIII
To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. — Georges Canguilhem
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. — Franklin P. Adams
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine. — Alexander Pope
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
To err is human. To cover it up is weasel. — Scott Adams
Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine. — Kevin DeYoung
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. — Benjamin Franklin
To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine — Howard Ruff
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human — Hugh Prather
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. — G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. — Hubert H. Humphrey
It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. — Saint Augustine
To err is human, to purr feline. — Robert Byrne
Many after-dinner speakers remind us that to err is human. — Frances Rodman
To err is human - but it feels divine. — Mae West
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
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
To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on. — Vince Vaughn
If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way. — Paulo Coelho
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. — Henry Spencer
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. — Plutarch
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
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
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
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