Definition of Err

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Definition of Err

Err

To wander; to roam; to stray.

To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.

To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.

To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.

To offend, as by erring.

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Err Quotations

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas Gandhi

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West

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.
Martin Luther

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

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

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Err Translations

err in Danish is tage fejl
err in Dutch is dwalen, een fout maken
err in French is errons, errez, errent
err in German is irren
err in Italian is fallare
err in Latin is desum, pecco, erro, palor
err in Norwegian is feile
err in Spanish is equivocarse, errar
err in Swedish is fela, missta sig

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