When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from thence will spring all thy future good or evil; and it is an action of life, like unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once!
Err in the direction of kindness.
Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.
It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . . Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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.
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
To deny me the right to err is therefore to deny me the right to believe.
To err from the right path is common to mankind.
I err therefore I am.
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress.
To err is human, but it feels divine.
You’re not likely to err by practicing too much of the cross.
The cautious seldom err.
Let it be a settled principle in our minds, in reading the Bible, that Christ is the central sun of the whole book. So long as we keep Him in view, we shall never greatly err in our search for spiritual knowledge. Once losing sight of Christ, we shall find the whole Bible dark and full of difficulty.
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
At a recent conference, a colleague told one of us that in IPCC discussions, some scientists have been reluctant to make strong claims about the scientific evidence, lest contrarians "attack us". Another said that she'd rather err on the side of conservatism in her estimates, because then she feels more "secure. "
