Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 36

Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can’t improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Our true mentor in life is science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It is better to go near the truth and be imprisoned than to stay with the wrong and roam about freely, master Galilei. In fact, getting attached to falsity is terrible slavery, and real freedom is only next to the right.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.
Mehmet Murat ildan
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.
Mehmet Murat ildan
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For a child, parents’ warning is like a rose blooming in the brain; it opens with difficulty and fades quickly.
Mehmet Murat ildan
It’s very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves.
Mehmet Murat ildan
All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The sun rises from the two places: From the East and also from where the Science rises!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whether we like it or not, one day science will take God from us! This will be especially a great destruction for the weak minds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man! What are you? Who are you? Just a shadow in this universe! You always forget this and the truth will always remind you what you really are! Do you want to be a real thing, not just a shadow? Improve your science ten thousand times; improve your science hundred thousand times! If you can’t improve your science, you will remain as a miserable shadow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Our true mentor in life is science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water.
İlhan Berk
Clocks and calendars do not exist to remind us of the Time we've forgotten but to regulate our relations with others and indeed all of society, and this is how we use them.
Orhan Pamuk
Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.
Elif Shafak
The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Turn your weakness into your richness.
Erol Ozan
Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.
Elif Shafak
If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.
Erol Ozan
Maybe these days you take some actions and steps that will lead you to the success that you want to achieve. You make preparations, channel all your resources into this process and move forward towards your goal with giant steps. You encounter a little problem in any phase of the process and think that you can solve it with a simple solution. The process seems to be working well, but you may be forgetting one thing.You may, at any time, encounter unexpected problems on the way to your goals. This is quite usual, however, sometimes problems which stand in your way seem so easy to solve that you find a quick solution with a very little effort and try to get rid of the problem. At first glance, things go right. You suppose that you have handled the situation successfully, but the surprise is not late; you realize that your solution is actually a terrible one that causes bigger problems in a way that you would never expect. Bingo!Never let the fact that finding a solution seems to be easy lead you to think that the problem is not serious. A scorpion is small, but it can knock you down with a single move.Good Boys Can't Do A Great Job (from my own book that I am still working on)
Coskun YUKSEL
Do not waste time wondering things you can't do well, instead think about things you can do great.
John Taskinsoy
...for love loves power. That is why we can suicidally fall in love with others but can rarely reciprocate the love of those suicidally in love with us.
Elif Shafak
The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
Orhan Pamuk
Don't feed your ego with my soul.
Arzum Uzun
In this storyI am the poetYou're the poetry.
Arzum Uzun
Never trust the captain who has never taken any education from the School of Storms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future is closed for such archaic residuals from the pre-modern time of social evolution!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
On the road to success, even little stones may cause you fall down! If you are not serious and careful, forget about reaching your target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!
Mehmet Murat ildan