Mehmet Murat ildan Quotes - Page 3

Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity!

Storm will never take you in consideration whether you take the storm in consideration or not!

There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!

People often make very bad mistakes because people often don’t ask very simple crucial questions before their actions!

Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!

If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!

John F. Kennedy says: ‘Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’ I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don’t leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!

Don’t let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!

By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!

The kingdom of reflection is at the mercy of the wind!

The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!

Catch the life with the agility of a dog trying to get a hold of the flying Frisbee!

A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards!

A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!

Man has not forgotten to be man because man has not yet learned to be man! You can’t forget the thing you haven’t learned yet!

If you feel you have to open a particular door, open it, otherwise all your life that door will haunt your mind!

Our laugh is a torment and our cry is a joy for the Satan!

A cheerful music is a powerful light for the shadows of sorrow!

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!

Petronius says that ‘Mundus vult decipi - The world wants to be deceived.’ That is very true, otherwise there wouldn’t exist any religion!

Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!

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!

The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!

People ask what will happen if Mars One fails. There will be Mars Two, Mars Three, there will be Gliese 581 One, Proxima Centauri b One etc. If a project opens the path for other projects, it means that it has already triumphed!

Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don’t pluck them!

Sun must set so that we can long for its rise!

A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!

It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!

Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!

When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!

When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!

If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

Like birds leaving the dangerous places man must also leave his dangerous ideas!

Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called ‘You and I’ planet!

A calm night is open to all the truths.

We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it!

All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

The ‘stream’ we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

If you are not lucky enough, you can’t reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need ‘luck’ to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!

How long we live is much more important than how well we live!

Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!

The joy of life is being able to do the things we wish to do!

The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!

You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!

When the winter comes, the summer shines infinitely in our hearts!

To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!

Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.

You don’t need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish!

To give light to others, you must first take light from others!

We must either rearrange this unstable universe or we must exit from here! If we are not a mosquito or a crocodile, we must either dry out the marsh or exit from it!