Turkish Thinkers Quotes - Page 3

Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!

When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!

All the paths kneel before the decisive minds!

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!

If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!

Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!

If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!

Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!

Unhappiest is the person who feels happy when seeing an unhappy person!

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

If you do not have a cause, then you have nothing at all! Get a cause and march with that cause!

Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!

To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!

Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!

Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!

It is only where the light and shadow meet, we can see the beauty of both the light and the shadow!

Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!

Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!

There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!

When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!

Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!

Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!

Let those who are awake awaken the dormant in every matter which desperately needs the liberating light of the truth or else the dormant will forever sleep!

Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!

It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!

With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!

What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!

Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!

Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!

Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!

Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!

To wish a life without stairs, without hills and mountains is to wish a dim life without the joy of rising with our own efforts!

The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!

To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!

By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this!

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!

If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!

The wiser you become, the lesser you will be surprised!

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!

Rich just needs a more expensive shoe, but poor just needs a shoe!

What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!

You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!