Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 33

Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Loneliness was an inseparable part of being human.
Elif Shafak
The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The remotest place on Earth can sometimes be the most attractive place on Earth especially in times when our belief in humanity is lost!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you have much higher ethical values than the ethical values of your own people, you stop belonging to your own people, to your own country because your people and your country are now located in the low levels of humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The more we respect other creatures, the more respect our humanity will get!
Mehmet Murat ildan
History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you see only your coreligionists as your brothers, you aren’t only a good man but also you are very low in morality! Your brothers are the whole humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Some among the Armenians in the diaspora would never want the Turks to recognize the genocide. If they do so, they'll pull the rug out from under our feet and take the strongest bond that unites us. Just like the Turks have been in the habit of denying their wrongdoing, the Armenians have been in the habit of savoring the cocoon of victim hood. Apparently, there are some old habits that need to be changes on both sides." Baron Baghdassarian
Elif Shafak
Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this delight that sultans and viziers proffer bags of gold to have their histories written?
Orhan Pamuk
History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand” of the market. When the plan was formulated in tons of steel sheet, the sheet was made too heavy. When it was formulated in terms of area of steel sheet, the sheet was made too thin. When the plan for chandeliers was made in tons, they were so heavy, they could hardly hang from ceilings.
Daron Acemoglu
If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Intelligence without wisdom brings destruction.
Erol Ozan
At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A journey deep into the Kingdom of Nature is always a mysterious journey, a Sufistic voyage, a spiritual trip!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We read novels because we want to see the world through other experiences, other beings, other eyes, other cultures.
Orhan Pamuk
Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.
Elif Shafak
By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it was, he said, this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.
Orhan Pamuk
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.
Erol Ozan
Reality is not enough for us, that’s why we have invented art to create different realities!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No art is silent! Because art is an original idea and every original idea speaks, every interesting thought screams, every art talks, every art screams! No art is silent! If it is silent, then it is not an art!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art creates high energy, high vibrations, high music, high feelings, high of everything! Without art, we leave highness and we meet lowness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to fly? Find an art and watch it carefully!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to have a golden signature, create a good art!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The purpose of art is to create heavens to balance the world because there are so many hells in the world, there are wars, tortures and oppressions, there is unhappiness etc.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
Orhan Pamuk
We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.
Orhan Pamuk
I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.
Orhan Pamuk
If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is ever a magical beauty that can be watched hours with great admiration, and that is the beauty of a strong light falling from the everlasting skies into the heart of the dimness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Nature has two powers: Her own physical power and the spiritual power of her beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Why was "plain" a euphemism for "ugly," when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her - something having to do with who she really was.
Elif Batuman
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
Orhan Pamuk
No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!
Mehmet Murat ildan