Mehmet murat ildan quotes

When you close your mouth, your ears will be bigger!

The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!

Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!

Wise man is the rooster of the universe: He awakens the unawake!

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!

Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave!

We like rain if the sun comes after it; we like night if the day comes after it; we like everything conditionally! We are conditional people!

Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!

No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!

If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!

In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!

Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!

Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

Do not hold an idea tightly! There is always a possibility that what you believe might be wrong! Hold your ideas loosely so that you can easily get rid of them once you have realised that they are wrong!

I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!

Smile creates love and peace; love and peace create smile.

Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Midnight is another planet! When the clock strikes twelve and if you are asleep, wake up, friend, and discover the beauties of this new planet: Discover the silence; discover the tranquillity; speak to the owls, speak to the moon; greet the hedgehogs and disappear in the midst of the mists!

The face of tomorrow can be seen only in tomorrow.

We must always think about death, because death always thinks about us!

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

There is no need to dream in nature because you are already inside the dream!

If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!

Roads are long; make them short with a good company!

Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!

When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!

The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!

Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!

If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader!

With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!

Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!

Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!

If you have good friends, don't look for treasure because you are already rich; if you have just treasure, look for good friends, because you are still poor!

In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise!

My dear friend, to be both powerful and fair has always been difficult for mankind. Power and justice have always been seen like day and night; this being the case, when one of them is there the other disappears.

Happy moments are the times to be stupid, not be genius!

If you want to give an advice to someone, you must first be somebody.

Without water drops, there can be no oceans; without steps, there can be no stairs; without little things, there can be no big things!

If you want to shine over the world, first let the wisdom shines over you!

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

Why pay money for the horror movies? Just go to a street without trees!

If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are!

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!

History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power!

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary!

If heaven is within you, everywhere you go you will find heaven!

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

Your travel on the road to truth starts with daring to suspect your own believes!

Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!

Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

When the sun sets beautifully, other beauties rise. Nature is a theatre; when one great player leaves the scene, another great player immediately enters. The play always continues excellently.

All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

Never hide yourself! When you say something, don't be in the shadow; let everyone see you! Whatever you say always put your name under it! Be courageous enough not to use any mask; don't forget that hiding among the bushes is the affair of the cowards! Let the Sun shines on your face and everyman see you!

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

If the view is very beautiful, do not sit and watch; go to the view, be in the view!

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

May God protect us from all the religions!

Horizons will not come to you; you must go to the horizons!

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!

Old age is a humble victory in this killing universe.

A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!

If you do not read and listen to the opposite ideas, you can always remain a stupid person! Opposite ideas, however contrary they may sound, are your greater chances on the way to truth!

Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

For someone who doesn't have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!

We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!

Some people are so weak that whenever they see a hammer, they immediately turn into a nail!

All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden!

As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

Every time you go to the zoo, you prolong the captivity of the animals there! If no one goes to the zoos, there will be no zoos! Destroying the evil is very simple and it is in your hand!

If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!

A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

If somebody praises you; change the topic!

The good may lose; the bad may win! Remember this! Because knowing this increases the chance of the good to win!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married...

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

Ignorant voters of the democracies are always a great threat to the progression of humanity, simply because they give their votes to the people who look like themselves!

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!

If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy!

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

Intellectual is a parrot; wise man is a crow. One is repetitive; other is creative!

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Smiling face is always beautiful even if it is hundred years old!

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

Winter is dead; spring is crazy; summer is cheerful and autumn is wise!

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!