Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes

He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey’s!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In low intelligent ignorant societies, the clever are denigrated and the stupid are belauded; the brainy are stoned and the dull are held in high esteem!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t perceive the facts as a false criticism or else you lose badly! Because facts are facts and they need to be respected and be taken into consideration promptly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a clever man, different cultures, different lives, different attitudes, different dreams, different of everything are a good teacher! You only take the things you already know from somebody or something like you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where there is no security of life is certainly not a country but just a slaughter house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time a stupid politician says something stupid, you don’t have to reply to him, because it is nonsense to shoo every barking dog away!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reflection is a blessing and reflection happens not only when one sees himself on a mirror or on the windowpane or on a puddle, but it also happens when someone criticises you! In every true critique made on you, you will see yourself and you will obtain a good chance to make corrections on yourself! Reflection happens even in the books you read! Reflection is a blessing; when it happens, you discover yourself, you face yourself!
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When you are in trouble, you are the nearest first person who can help you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To reach your target quicker, don’t lose your time by looking back!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The uncertainty of the future is a great blessing for us humans! Let the road ahead of us be completely unknown for us so that we can have the marvellous joy of discovering it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The path to tranquility gets through the storms!
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Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best comedy on earth shows up when an immoral person talks about the morals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!
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If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
High walls and deep precipices on your path or hard rocks and big holes are not real obstacles! There is only one real obstacle on your path: Absence of self-confidence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You are whatever you shall leave behind when you leave life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Want to give a very strong energy to someone with a simple act? Then, smile!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If ten men are trying to lynch one allegedly vile person, than we can be completely sure that there are ten vile people and one allegedly vile person over there! Don’t forget, violence makes you a low man!
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Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!
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Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!
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Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well!
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Every beautiful place is your temple, you can always visit them; every useful book is your holy book, you can always read them; every place you find love is your heaven, you can always go there! Don’t get stuck in the temples, in the so-called holy books and heavens of the religions because life is much richer, much superior and much intelligent than all the religions because life is alive, it is dynamic and it continuously develops itself!
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You cannot call a man as a good person just because he is treating you good! He should treat everyone good to be good!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You exist because the universe exists. You owe your existence to the universe. You may call the universe as god or something else, it doesn’t matter. What matters is this: Thank to it!
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We are unimportant creatures in this universe. We are all alone for the moment. Nobody has ever sent us any holy book or whatsoever. To survive in this universe we must first understand that nobody can help us, nobody but ourselves! To be important creatures in this universe means is to be able to shape this universe in such a way that our existence become everlasting!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To attack terrorism, firstly attack the ignorance which is the greatest source of terrorism! Attack the ignorance worldwide because ignorance often creates sick minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you comfortable? That’s good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others!
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Like a breakfast time or lunch time, you must have a thinking time! Without eating and thinking we cannot stick to the existence; without them we cannot stay in the port of this universe!
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The more you keep your door closed, the more you will rot! Open your door! Let different ideas, different beliefs, different cultures and different attitudes flow into your mind. Anything different will help you to enlarge your little world! By opening your door, you invite the whole universe to your tiny house! Enlarge your house and enrich yourself! As long as your door remains closed, you shall continue rotting in your poor world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes a strong wind blows suddenly and you leave your beloved tree without saying even goodbye, like a pale autumn leaf! This uncertainty of life makes every moment in life infinitely precious.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Good literature is a lifeboat! Every time you feel you are sinking, jump on it!
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When modern values and modern people are under attack in a country, we can be sure of a dark future in that country!
Mehmet Murat ildan
An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society with lynch culture needs a big zoo, not for the animals definitely, but for the very people themselves!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is good to be imperfect so that we retain our joy to work hard to rise to perfection!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire!
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