Err Is Human Quotes & Sayings

When I was a kid, they had a saying, 'to err is human but to really fuck it up takes a computer.' — Benjamin R. Smith

So often, children are punished for being human. Children are not allowed to have grumpy moods, bad days, disrespectful tones, or bad attitudes, yet we adults have them all the time! We think if we don't nip it in the bud, it will escalate and we will lose control. Let go of that unfounded fear and give your child permission to be human. We all have days like that. None of us are perfect, and we must stop holding our children to a higher standard of perfection than we can attain ourselves. All of the punishments you could throw at them will not stamp out their humanity, for to err is human, and we all do it sometimes. — Rebecca Eanes

Now, a third and final trait, one which, in my eyes, best describes socialists of all schools and shades, is a profound opposition to personal liberty and scorn for individual reason, a complete contempt for the individual. They unceasingly attempt to mutilate, to curtail, to obstruct personal freedom in any and all ways. They hold that the State must not only act as the director of society, but must further be master of each man, and not only master, but keeper and trainer. ["Excellent."] For fear of allowing him to err, the State must place itself forever by his side, above him, around him, better to guide him, to maintain him, in a word, to confine him. They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, [Further signs of assent.] to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom. — Tocqueville

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. — Hubert H. Humphrey

It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy. — Rafael Sabatini

The Fairness Principle: When contemplating a moral action imagine that you do not know if you will be the moral doer or receiver, and when in doubt err on the side of the other person. This is based on the philosopher John Rawls's concepts of the "veil of ignorance" and the "original position" in which moral actors are ignorant of their position in society when determining rules and laws that affect everyone, because of the self-serving bias in human decision making. — Michael Shermer

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

To err is human. To really screw up requires the root password." - UNKNOWN — Kevin Behr

To err is human, to forgive, divine. — Alexander Pope

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

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

The human brain works by identifying patterns. It uses information from the past to understand what is happening in the present and to anticipate the future. This strategy works elegantly in most situations. But we inevitably see patterns where they don't exist. In other words, we are slow to recognize exceptions. There is also the peer-pressure factor. All of us have been in situations that looked ominous, and they almost always turn out to be innocuous. If we behave otherwise, we risk social embarrassment by overreacting. So we err on the side of underreacting. — Amanda Ripley

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. — Franklin P. Adams

To err is human, to accept full responsibility is to just run with it — Josh Stern

To err is human," Amelia said, "to forgive, absolutely galling. — Lisa Kleypas

To err is human; to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope"
Excerpt From: Moriarty, Liane. "The Husband's Secret. — Alexander Pope

To a misogynist: To err is woman. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine — Diane Griffith

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human — Hugh Prather

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy. — Lew Wasserman

To err is human, to persist in error is diabolical. — Georges Canguilhem

To err is human. To errah is Kennedy. — James DeAcutis

To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane — Ljupka Cvetanova

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 err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. — Benjamin Franklin

It is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself? — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian. — Victor Hugo

To err is human. To admit it, a blunder. — Various

To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up. — Jonathan Tropper

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic. — Albert Ellis

To err is human, to forgive is divine. — Jo Nesbo

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive, divine. — Alexander Pope

To err is human, but to be paid for it is divine — Howard Ruff

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

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

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our best affections; but, in certain special cases, beyond that point it does not. they err who would assert that invariable this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart. It rather proceeds from a certain hopelessness of remedying excessive and organic ill. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. An when at last it is perceived that such pity cannot lead to effectual succor, common sense bides the soul be rid of it. — Herman Melville

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent ... somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre. — Ellen McLaughlin

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. — Doug Larson

He went on to say that conclusions arrived at through reasoning had very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives. Hence, the countless examples of people who have the clearest convictions and yet act diametrically against them time and time again, and have as the only explanation for their behavior the idea that to err is human. — Carlos Castaneda

Mr. Grace sounded like a very small child, helpless, hopeless. I had made him fuck himself with his own big tool, like one of those weird experiences you read about in the Penthouse Forum. I had taken off his witch doctor's mask and made him human. But I didn't hold it against him. To err is only human, but it's divine to forgive. I believe that sincerely. — Richard Bachman

To err is human. To cover it up is weasel. — Scott Adams

To err is human, to purr is feline. — Robert Byrne

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary. — Lights

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. - Josh Jenkins — Anonymous

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. — Henry Spencer

To err is human, to forgive is divine ... but I'm only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I'm going to err towards beating you with this stick. — Mark Lawrence

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. — Robert Orben

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. — Paul R. Ehrlich

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

When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations. — Gurcharan Das

To err is human - but it feels divine. — Mae West

Of all the things we are wrong about, error might well top the list ... We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honourable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or intolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Thanks to error, we can revise our understanding of ourselves and amend our ideas about the world. — Kathryn Schulz

Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical. — Seneca.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian. — Victor Hugo

To err is human, to eat human is bear. — Jim Kamp

To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. — Plutarch

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

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

You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered. — Joel Achenbach