Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Interpretation
Experience helps us recognize and learn from the mistakes we made in our youth.
This quote by Ambrose Bierce suggests that as we grow older and gain experience, we come to understand the errors we made when we were younger. It highlights the idea that age brings wisdom, allowing us to acknowledge our past mistakes and possibly replace them with new ones that are more aligned with our better understanding of life.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire young adults in their journey ahead.
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed . . . . This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'
Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
NOUMENON, n. That which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be apprehended only by a process of reasoning - which is a phenomenon.
PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.
If you believe that feeling bad will change a past event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
Economy is half the battle in life, but it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
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