Top 1964 Quotes & Sayings by Mehmet Murat Ildan - Page 2

Man is a parrot in the House of History; he listens and then he repeats the same crap over and over!

Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!

Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!

If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!

The longer and the deeper the thought, the shorter the sentence of wisdom will be.

We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.

An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!

For a great master, everyone is a master, because he learns from everyone! For a great master, everything is a master, because he learns from everything!

Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!

You cannot disgrace a disgraceful man; you cannot make a shameless man feel ashamed; you cannot make a cockroach a cockroach, because it is already a cockroach!

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

Sunny days give us happiness; stormy days give us wisdom.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

Give food to the birds, you will then be surrounded by the wings of love, you will be encompassed by the joys of little silent hearts!

I am against the florists and floristry! Let the flowers not be the toys of our pleasures!

No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!

Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!

Winter invites white; white invites silence; silence invites peace. You see, there is so much peace in walking on the snow!

Do not hide your ignorance, because somebody might help you! Hiding always prolongs the problems.

If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

When everything around you is crazy, it is ingenious to stay calm.

Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds... Lonely trees are not lonely!

Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!

If you have discovered a truth, tell it first to a parrot! Every new truth needs an insistent repetition!

Big rocks are envy of little sands because little sands can travel with the winds. Every littleness has its own big advantages!

The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!

Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!

One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.

If you open your eyes very wide and look around you carefully, you will always see a lighthouse which will lead you to the right path! Just watch around you carefully!

If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!

Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground!

When you come across with a problem in your life, do not always try to solve it; make a long jump like a kangaroo and continue your way! Sometimes problems must be leaped over without touching them!

Youngsters lack wisdom; elders lack energy! When wisdom and energy comes to gather, great things are destined to happen!

Without birds, trees would be very lonely and men too!

All the beautiful corners of the world are the greatest mind and body healers!

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

If you stop reading and learning, you will start repeating yourself; that's why, old people always repeat the same things!

Pigs are dirty, but I will tell you something dirtier: Liars! Untruth always smells like rotten garbage!

With ignorant masses, the travel back in time is not only a possible travel, but it is the only travel!

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

You cannot separate the old furniture from the memories and the memories from the old furniture!

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!