Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

When you come across with the ideas that you don't like and even hate, do these three things: Be tolerant, be tolerant and be tolerant! Let them speak! Let the stupid and even the fools speak! Protecting freedom of expression under every circumstance is an honour for a man!

Science is the tongue in the mouth of the Universe; it is destined to know every little corner of the cosmos.

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

Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!

Stop going to the zoos! Don't take your children to the zoos! No creature ever deserves captivity without any crime!

While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.

Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!

Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.

When you speak universally, it means that you speak from the Moon, you speak from the Sun, from the stars; you speak by being in every corner of the universe!

There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!

Little details have special talents in creating big problems!

To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

When a great moment arises, it is great to be right there!

Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

In all countries, most of the time, official spokesman and official liar are the same thing!

No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!

A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!

In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten.

Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men!

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg!

For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

Walk aimlessly in the streets; this is a good meditation! Walk aimlessly in the forests; this is a good meditation!

Don't be afraid of the darkness; just carry a light with you!

The best armor against slander is having an honorable past. A good name is always made of smear-proof material.

In a twilight garden, when a brown nightingale starts singing, what is left to a blonde chicken is to remain silent.

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

No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life!

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!

Peace of mind! All we need is peace of mind!

Truth wanders everywhere, but especially and frequently, it wanders in the silence. To meet with it, you wander in the silence too.

If you want to be friend of progression, be the enemy of fear!

When you become angry, you enter a tunnel, leaving the light behind you; when you get calm, you exit the tunnel, finding the light in front of you!

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull; we also know that it rests on the horn of lies!

To think the welfare and the goodness of the next generations is indeed a good ethics, but there is much greater ethics than this: To think the welfare and the goodness of the current generations, the very people of now! The reason is simple: Future may not exist, it is only a possibility, but the people of now are not possibility, they are here!

To use violence against a peaceful man is the greatest immorality and the biggest rot ever!

Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!