Turkish Thinkers Quotes

Anywhere you find peace of mind is your home!

Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!

Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!

Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!

Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!

When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!

Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!

The most important thing about the ‘next time’ is that there may not be a next time!

By being a fascist you lose your right to be called human being!

By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

Obstacles are real only for those who surrender the obstacles in their minds!

Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!

Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!

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

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

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

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!

The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!

You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!

The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!

There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!

Nobody is exempt from the surprises of life!

Which gate to enter? Which path to choose? Which stairs to take? Which direction to go? These questions can be very depressive! And sometimes the solution lies in being bold, in being imprudent!

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!

You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!

In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!

You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!

Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!

There are some ignorant and immoral politicians, the more they win the elections the more their countries lose! Their victory always results in the defeat and the collapse of the whole country!

The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!

You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!

Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!

To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!

If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!

Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!

Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!

When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!

Not only try but try your best!

If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!

No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!

The burden of a porter is temporary, but the burden of a crooked politician is permanent because his conscience always carry the enormous burden of his frauds!

Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!

You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!

If a nation is leaving democracy and choosing fascism, it means that it is taking itself from a peaceful garden to a bloody slaughter house!

The word mother must be replaced with the word extraordinary because they precisely are!

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!

Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!

If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!

Powerful words always travel the whole world!

Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remembers you well!

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!

As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!

When a shadow looks very beautiful, we forget to look at its owner!

Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!