Murat Ildan Quotes

Your worst enemy can be your best teacher! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The roads to the stars are open only to those who grasp the great thoughts! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You like the wind? There is no wind? Start running! Create your own wind! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poor man! You have many burdens on you: The burdens of your religion, of your culture, of your ignorance, of your oppressive government! Find a wild horse and watch it! You will see what is to be unburdened and free! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you think that nobody hears your screams, try silence! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In youth, the greatest success is to see the world from the eyes of the aged people and to feel exactly how they feel. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any place you don't want to stay becomes your prison! That's why there are many prisoners all around the world who look like free men! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What you care about is what makes who you are! If you care about peace, this makes you a man! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where adventure begins, boring life ends; where adventure ends, boring life begins! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No flower wants to be at home when it is raining outside! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Since many things we see were once an idea, let us create good ideas today because they will be the realities of tomorrow! When you create an idea, do not forget that you shape the future! Idea is your God side! With ideas, you can change the universe, but only with very great ideas! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To live is to paint, it is to create; but while we are painting, we are being painted, being created as well! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible, he can easily define a nearer new destination! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A hand with a sword is a dirty hand; a man with a gun is a coward man. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Today, in the May Day, find a worker and shake his hand with gratitude! Without workers, no civilisation could be built! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even if you are the Sun itself, don't be haughty, because you will nevertheless die down! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't make war in daytime, because children are playing in the streets; don't make war in night time, because children are sleeping in their beds! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wind is the most skilled hairdresser! Find a windy weather and let your hair be shaped creatively! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Watching the rain is as beautiful as watching the sunset or the sunrise and it is even better because in addition to watching you can also listen to it, the fantastic music of the drop sounds! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For the violence in the dark streets, education is the best street light! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Elderly! The forgotten golds of the past; the ignored tired souls of the society! This world has many shames and one of the worst is this: Treating the elderly as the nonperson! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I thank to all the shadows and all the darknesses of my life; it is owing to them that I now love the light much more than ever before! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Paths which have been opened before will take you to places which have been discovered before! Boring! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to do something very praiseworthy and very saintly, make a child happy! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some look at the hills from far away and see only the barren lands; some travel amongst the hills and find the most beautiful valleys! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For the contented man, lake is an ocean; for the discontented one, ocean is a lake! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Little details have special talents in creating big problems! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Use the rows, otherwise you either go nowhere or you are drifted to somewhere unwanted! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is ok if you talk to a rock, but it is not ok if you expect any reply! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is raining! In other words little poems are coming down from the sky! Nature is literature! Sun is a fable; forest is a story; birds are a theatre; mountains are a myth; rain is a poem! Nature is literature! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A person with a universal mind who lives in a remote village knows the world much better than a person with a local mind who lives in a big city! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bored in life? Find a mysterious road and walk on that road! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there's nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can't see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rose is not the prettiest flower, neither water lily or petunia nor magnolia! An elegant soul is the prettiest flower on earth! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who has spent billions on churches, on mosques and on every kind of sanctuaries is guilty of not giving that money to the science! The path of sanctuary does not lead to God; the path of the faith does not lead to God; only the path of science leads to God! The bridge between man and the unknown God is not worshipping but it is science, only the science! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When iron and carbon come together, there emerges steel! To be something stronger and better, you must mostly unite with something else and melt in something else! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You owe light to your window! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nature without civilisation is frightening; and civilisation without nature is even more frightening! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A bad government cannot only be called as a 'bad' government; the real adjective should be this: Enemy! Yes, bad government is a real enemy for the country it governs, an enemy within! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man who sits hopelessly needs hope to get up more than he needs legs. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It matters not to be a Jewish or a Muslim or a Christian! What really matters is to be good by heart, to be honest and fair! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Since love is a magic, Valentine's Day is the day of magicians! Whoever loves creates a magic; whoever is loved, a magic is created! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Try to imagine its good old days whenever you see a ruin and try to do the same whenever you see an old person! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Many books mean many windows; many windows mean many new lights! Don't get stuck in one window, one book, one man, one country and one belief! Increase your windows! Wisdom is the house made of only windows! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can be an unhappy person, but you must never be a hopeless person! You can be an unsuccessful person or a defeated or an abandoned unlucky person, but you must never be a hopeless person! Being hopeless is the worst of the worst, it is the ultimate worst! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is a beautiful road which has an ugly end! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are in a position where a little mistake results in death, you don't have to worry about the big mistakes! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don't wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belong to the wisdom! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The simplest secret of reaching any place is to start walking! If people say you can't reach there, close your ears to them and continue walking! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Heavy fog is a weird guide! If you go on a journey with him, it takes you from nowhere and leaves you at nowhere! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When a volcano erupts, people get surprised, but it is a volcano! There is no 'place' for the surprise! The biggest problem with people is that they are not serious about the matters of life and death! Be serious or alternatively lose your existence! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man's primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel - happily or unhappily - on the path of life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Small minds just like small stones can never create giant waves. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you sincere? Are you yourself? Are you as you look? You don't have a mask on your face? You speak what you think? Then you are real, then you are not fake! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Find a calm lake and wait for the twilight in silence! There, existence will visit you with all its magnificence! The existence of the Existence can best be felt in the presence of dimness and in the absence of crowds and noises! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There will be always something old in the New Year! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you feeling helpless when you think about the dark roads of the future? Then read the biographies of the great men! Learn their life stories; they will lead you to the light! Buddha will lead you to the light; Gandhi will lead you to the light! Men of wider horizons will broaden our own horizons! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never hesitate to open new windows in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be quiet if you want to talk to silence! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The greatest punishment for being in a position that can always see everything occurs when you don't want to see anything! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any man who pursues for peace is a remarkable man! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wind also needs wind because everything and everybody needs a friend like himself! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic library! Read them to acquire their story! When you obtain the story of someone or something, you obtain their wisdom as well! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nietzsche says God is dead. Probably now God says Nietzsche is dead! The one that will die is religion, not the God! God will always live! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colours autumn is coming to visit them! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is easy to sit and it is easy not to think; you do the opposite: You walk and think! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a supernatural power tries to make you a saint or an emperor, refuse it, because the greatest beauty of life hides in having no position whatsoever! Positionless is the best position! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you sweep the universe, nothing changes, only the things change their places; when the universe sweeps you, nothing changes, only the things change their places! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A pigeon flying with the ravens will start to caw! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We have two main objectives in this universe: First is to have fun; second is to try find a way to protect our existence so that we can continue to have fun! These two objectives must be pursued simultaneously! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan