Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.
Man errs as long as he strives.
No one who errs unwillingly is evil.
It is not that the intellect sometimes misunderstands. Rather, the intellect always misunderstands. It is not that the intellect sometimes errs, it is that the intellect is the error.
If anyone stumbles then he must repent. If anyone errs then he must repent. And no one must insist on (the path of) destruction. If anyone insists on tyranny then he is far away from the path
The heart errs like the head; its errors are not any the less fatal, and we have more trouble getting free of them because of their sweetness.
At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena. . who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.
He who thinks little errs much.
One errs as long as one strives.
Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.
One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.
Truly even he errs that is wiser than the wise.
Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
