Steve Coogan Quotes

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

We can learn from everybody.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

We have a lot to learn from everyone.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

If everyone breaks down their walls and stops putting themselves on holier-than-thou pedestals, we can all learn from each other.

It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute respect, not only for people who worship in a different way, but just as much respect for those who do not believe in God and who are atheists.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on.

You grow more when you get more people's perspective.

Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

So why don't all religions get together and go to war with atheists? Because we all want the same thing: respect and tolerance and not to be forced to do anything we don't want to.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.