Words matter. These are the best Err Quotes from famous people such as Tom Cotton, Johann Rupert, Euripides, Heywood Broun, Rodney Frelinghuysen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.
When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I’m afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
Certainly I support the Constitution, and I respect people’s privacy, but I also think we need to err on the side of protecting us.
You’re taught from a very young age that you shouldn’t get too big for your britches, so I tend to err way too much on the side of ‘Nothing means anything.’
I know what feels good to eat and what doesn’t. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it’s always better to feel healthy.
It is one thing to err on the side of caution. Equally, Test wins have to be earned. They are seldom handed to you on a plate.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
When in doubt, it is better to do the less conservative thing and to err on the side of the more colorful, possibly terrible mistake. That comes from thinking of yourself as a writer.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Although there’s an inherent light-heartedness to ‘Sherlock,’ I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.
Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, ‘To err is Truman,’ yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.
The wisest of the wise may err.
You’re certainly aware of your strengths and limitations, but I’d say I probably err on the side of trying to go too far and then get disappointed with myself and how it turns out.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
It’s important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it’s been possible, and that window could be open for a long time – hopefully it is – or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.
I’ll always err on the side of art for art’s sake.
It is a true man’s part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
While both plants and animals awaken via distinct changes in metabolic functioning, most plants prefer to err on the side of caution, waiting for hints of full-on summer before they bloom.
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there’s something that put us all here – some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
They used to tease me at the ‘Oprah’ show, ‘Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?’ And my answer is, ‘I can vary it a bit, but I’m never going to err from classic materials.’
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Wall Street, in the main, hates uncertainty, which manifests itself in depressed share prices of companies whose prospects lack ‘visibility.’ But where the market can err is in confusing uncertainty with risk.
To be human is to err, isn’t it?
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
