Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Everything is winged in this universe, even a rock! When the time comes, rock crumbles into tiny pieces and starts flying in the air!

Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!

In matters of climbing long staircases, how many stairs there are is not as important as how strong a will you have!

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

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

A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.

Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.

If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!

All the roads of the haughty man lead to arrogance!

A victory which is not honorable is nothing but a defeat!

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

Have you taken the decision of war? Then, you are sick! Have you participated the war? Then, you are sick! Do you produce guns? Then, you are sick! Refuse all of them and be healthy, be human, be normal, be a real man!

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!

Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?

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!

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

Bible says the tree is known by his fruit. We can also say that the great man is known by his undreamed dreams!

If you are after truth, leave your cave!

The more coward you are, the bigger your castle is!

Every door is a door opening to another door!

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful in itself!

The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

West is too materialist; East is too spiritual; North is too cold; South is too loose!

No man is disbeliever! Everyone is believer! All men believe in something! If a man does not believe in God, He is a believer too, because he simply believes that God does not exist! Don't give yourself airs just because you believe in something since everyman believes in something! Always be humble!

In every height, man feels himself in the low; because man is greedy and unsatisfied!

All countries must be governed by the modern people; they must be governed by the progressive people; they must be governed by those who believe in the reason and science; they must be governed by the compassionate and just, by the ethical and honest, by the nonviolent and peaceful people; they must be governed by the libertarians; they must be governed by the people who believe in the enlightenment and who refuse to shape the society based on some childish religious stories!

Those that despise peace and admire war are crushed under the boots of the war!

There is only one way to win a war which has begun: To stop it immediately; that is the way!

Hardly you can see someone on the streets of truth.

When the way looks infinitely long, if you are sure that it is the right way, ignore the distance and start walking!

Go to forest to meet the wise green friends!

When the sun shines wondrously in the morning, even the shadows in our mind start running away!

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

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create.

If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country!

The road you travel might horribly get narrower; do not panic! Keep your spirits high; the road will get wider!

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

If you find a fork on your way when you are in need of a spoon, take it to give someone who is in need of a fork!

I don't keep diaries; I consider them like birds; I set them free and let them fly to the depths of the past where they belong!

Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past!

If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?

Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!

Use the hills to get stronger!