Turkish Writers Quotes

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

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 an incurious person, an open door will be no different than a wall!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

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

There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!

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

You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!

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

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

Many countries collapsed totally just because nations of that country were sleeping like a log while the country is collapsing totally!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Solitude is the path to visit yourself, it is the path to yourself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!

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

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

The journey of every ignorant and obedient society always ends up in the same place: In the desert!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you smile, it means that your mind smiles; when you cry, it means that your mind cries!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

Mehmet Murat ildan

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

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

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

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

You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When nobody interferes with what you wear and how you wear, you are living in a civilised country at least on the matter of clothes! Happiness and freedom are often the same thing!

Mehmet Murat ildan

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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