„Myself not ignorant of woe,
Compassion I have learned to show.“

„We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.“

—  Curtis Sittenfeld Novelist, short story writer 1975

Source: American Wife

„I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.“

—  Ellen DeGeneres American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress 1958

Ellen on Oprah show, 9th of November 2009

„I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.“

—  Timothy Leary American psychologist 1920 - 1996

At the Neo-Pagan Starwood Festival (July 1991), recorded on Timothy Leary Live at Starwood (2001) http://www.freetimes.com/story/3493 by the Association for Consciousness Exploration ISBN 1-59157-002-6

„I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.

Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.“

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

„I have to stand up for myself… I learned something that I could and should stand up for myself, and he learned something, which was she will stand up for herself.“

—  Carly Fiorina American corporate executive and politician 1954

David Webb Show http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/05/ohio-male-rnc-member-calls-carly-fiorina-hot-babe/ (5 August 2015).
2010s, 2015, David Webb Show (August 2015)

„I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.“

—  Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642

As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed

„Like you, an alien in a land unknown,
I learn to pity woes so like my own.“

—  John Dryden English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631 - 1700

Aeneis, Book I, lines 889–890.
The Works of Virgil (1697)

„There is beauty in compassion, but one must learn wisdom too.“

—  Brandon Sanderson American fantasy writer 1975

Source: The Final Empire

„The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.“

—  Melody Beattie American writer 1948

Source: Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time

„In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.“

—  Robert Anton Wilson American author and polymath 1932 - 2007

Source: Leviathan

„Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.“

—  Ernest Hemingway American author and journalist 1899 - 1961

Source: The Dangerous Summer (1985), Ch. 1

„I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.“

—  Nathaniel Tarn American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator 1928

Poem Last of the Chiefs published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1965) Old savage, young city. p. 18.

„YOU MUST LEARN THE COMPASSION PROPER TO YOUR TRADE"
"And what's that?"
"A SHARP EDGE.“

—  Terry Pratchett, book Mort

Source: Mort

„When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.“

—  Joel Osteen American televangelist and author 1963

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

„Witchcraft to the ignorant,…. Simple science to the learned.“

—  Leigh Brackett American novelist and screenwriter 1915 - 1978

„I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.“

—  Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist 1918 - 1988

Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "But Is It Art?", p. 261
Context: I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It's difficult to describe because it's an emotion. It's analogous to the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls everything in the whole universe: there's a generality aspect that you feel when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so differently are all run "behind the scenes" by the same organization, the same physical laws. It's an appreciation of the mathematical beauty of nature, of how she works inside; a realization that the phenomena we see result from the complexity of the inner workings between atoms; a feeling of how dramatic and wonderful it is. It's a feeling of awe — of scientific awe — which I felt could be communicated through a drawing to someone who had also had this emotion. It could remind him, for a moment, of this feeling about the glories of the universe.

„What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know,
And from her own she learned to melt at others' woe.“

—  Thomas Gray English poet, historian 1716 - 1771

Hymn to Adversity http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=otad, St. 2 (1742)

„Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!“

—  Joseph Conrad, book Victory

Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14

„I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.“

—  Dan Brown American author 1964

Interview at Brown's official site http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html
Context: Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious — that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.