Turkish Thinkers Quotes - Page 4

You can save hundred words with just one look!

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 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!

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

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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!

Same ideas don’t create same faces but they create same behaviors!

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!

For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!

Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!