Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people!

You can see love in war and you can also see war in love!

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!

Every nation determines its own destiny; the clever the nation, the better the fate!

When you hear voices from your past, do not close your ears, listen to them, but don't stop, keep walking to the future.

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Today is the best day for anything and for everything! It is the only door you have; it is the only key you have!

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

Walk ten meters, you will find the lust; walk thousand miles, you may find the love! Soil is everywhere; but gold is somewhere!

A beautiful morning is not a guarantee for a beautiful afternoon! Just like a man of desert appreciates water, value well whatever beauty you have now!

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!

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

A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now.

Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

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

Physical limitedness can only be surpassed by mental unlimitedness!

No one can save you, no one but your very reason! Therefore, improve your reason!

For heaven's sake, all you fool speak not in the name of God, for He has his own tongue to speak!

Wherever there is love, there the season transforms into spring!

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

Is it possible that a tragedy can look so beautiful? The death of the leaves is the answer for this question!

It is often said that it's a man's world; we must change this fact and create this: It's a human's world!

A man with a warm heart is no different than a warm house in the middle of a bitter winter!

As long as you don't stop producing guns, you can't be a decent country!

In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!

Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed!

Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!

Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!

We must always be thankful to our enemies as they teach us that the smiling face of the world is nothing but a theatre mask!

If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps alive man is the curiosity!

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!

There is nothing invisible in this universe! There is only our lack of eyesight!

The snakes are always against the prohibition of the poisons; and the arms traders, of the arms!

Let your works not be interrupted by the stupidities happening in your own country! Work and walk on your true path ignoring any kind of distractions! Abstract yourself from all the primitivenesses surrounding you! Concentrate on your work!

Great ideas behave like the Sun. Even in the middle of nowhere, they find people and shine on them!

If you want to know how fast the time is, here is the answer: Tomorrow is already a history!

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one!

In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!

We are living in the World of Snails! Man is extremely slow! Whoever has a limited life, he has no right to be slow! Things must be done quickly! Slowness belongs to the immortals!

Knowledge is the only water which makes one thirsty when it is drunk.