to err is human (to forgive divine).

err | American Dictionary

err
verb[ I ]
us/er, ɜr/
to make a mistake:
It’s preferable to err on the side of caution (= to be too careful) rather than risk disaster.

Examples of err

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By erring on the side of life, too, one tries to keep in check any subjective quality-of-life judgments.
These results suggest that individuals, subgroups, or populations may err systematically about economics as well as politics.
The appellate court determined that the district court did not err in determining that the dissimilarities were significant.
If they erred, the experimenter pronounced the item again and the children repeated it.
To err is human: building a safer health system.
Where the causal models err, in my view, is in adopting a mode of explanation that strongly constrains the set of relevant contextual factors.
However, among those subjects who erred only once, the error tended to occur with the first pseudo-homonym presentation.
The loss of market and therefore a livelihood was sure to bring any erring person to heel!
The warm-up was also designed to eliminate any children who were unable to follow the directions by erring on 2 of 3 trials.
Only later did management acknowledge that they had erred.
No more than one listener erred for any one pair.
For example, when asked to find the stickbug, the children who erred most often selected the stick, rather than the other (not stick-like) bug.
Furthermore, children erred in the direction of the rule overgeneralizing der.
Doctors in this setting can rarely err on the side of providing too much information to their patients.
They err who would assert that invariably this is owing to the inherent selfishness of the human heart.
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