Ildan Wisdom Quotes - Page 9

Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!

One of the most distinct features of this whole human history is god flattery! People never get tired of buttering every kind of gods in the hope of getting earthly benefit or obtaining heavenly plunder! Man is no doubt a tireless flunkey!

Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!

A good photograph never belongs to the past; every time you look at it, it is with you, it is alive and it is in the present moment!

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!

Yes, looking through the eyes of literature we may talk about the beauty of sadness! But in the eyes of truth, sadness is just saddening; there is no beauty there, only a touching desperation!

When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!

You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!

Here is a wonderful habit: From time to time stop; move not; speak not; just watch the nature, because this is the best way to realise explicitly the miracles surrounding us!

The little lake you love is the biggest ocean for you!

Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

If you are looking at anything from one point, from one angle, you can never attain wisdom because wisdom is to see all the things from every point, from every angle!

Who can live without eating? A farmer is a great hero because he fights for our existence! If anyone deserves a medal of existence in a country, that person should be a farmer!

Have you got stuck in a period of time where you loved or you were loved once? Come back to the present time, because present time is the only time you can do something real about your fate!

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

Is it possible to have memories from the future? Yes, it is! Just dream about the future and these dreams will take their places on your memories, they will be your memories from the future!

When you leave the light behind you, shadows and darkness become your guide!

Your dream is your path!

Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!

Cities who do not have trams always look less literary, less poetic, and less mysterious!

When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!

Hard roads require will of steel!

In reality the concept of ‘other nation’ is wrong because there is only one nation: The Human Nation!

Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!

Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!

It is more important to prove something to yourself than to prove it to others!

Far places and difficult things do not gently invite people to come to themselves, but they so to say pull people forcefully to themselves with some kind of mystical magnets!

Don’t hide yourself from the world and don’t let the world hide himself from you!

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!

Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!

Only a happy mind will see the beauty of a beautiful view! For the sad mind everywhere looks gloomy!

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!

The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

The sound we hear when it snows is the soft song of the white beauty!

The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!

What can a little town teach you? It can teach you how a little place already contains the whole features of the entire world!

If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!

When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!

If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!

Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!

For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!

It is a great privilege to travel alone on the right path knowing at heart that one day millions too will travel on that same road!

Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

You want to be a river? This is not necessary because you can be a river without being a river; just flow in your life, this is what the rivers are doing, they are flowing! Remember, you can be anything without giving up yourself. Never wish to be something else, always be yourself! You want to be a Sun? Just give warmth to everyone with kind words!

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!

In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can’t see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!