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
Man Is To Error Quotes
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. — General Peyton C. March
Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error. — Andrew Jackson
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love, or a call for love.
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. — Gorgias
Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. — Oliver Cromwell
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. — Eric Sevareid
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation. — Rene Daumal
The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. — James Allen
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself. — William Godwin
Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked. — Aristotle
We All Make Mistakes Quotes
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help. — John C. Maxwell
We all make mistakes, as the hedgehog said as he climbed off the scrubbing brush — Anne Sullivan Macy
I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Bill Kaulitz
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones. — Henry Cloud
As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down. — Shawn Johnson
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for. — Amos Tversky
When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.
People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights. — Pete Carroll
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. — L.M. Montgomery
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. — Henry Ford
Going too fast is one of the mistakes all negotiators are prone to making. If we’re too much in a hurry, people can feel as if they’re not being heard. — Chris Voss
We Make Mistakes Quotes
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong! — Chuck Smith
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. — Mel Brooks
We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load. — Malcolm X
One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it.
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer. — Rudolf Dreikurs
Lets make no mistake about this: The American Dream starts with the neigborhoods. If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must
understand that the quality of life is more important than the standard of living. — Harvey Milk
We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground. — Dana White
The last of the human freedoms - to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances.
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins. — E. Stanley Jones
Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. — Richard Bach
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. — Werner Heisenberg
None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that. — Dan Harmon
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
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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