A Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Clever Compare Genius Lake Let Us Ocean Us

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Mehmet Murat Ildan
Writer
Born: May 16, 1965

Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

You think you’re a very clever fellow, don’t you?” Saldur challenged. “No, Your Grace,” Merrick replied. “Clever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. I’m not clever—I’m a genius.

Michael J. Sullivan

In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

All of writing is a huge lake. There are great rivers that feed the lake, like Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky. And then there are mere trickles, like Jean Rhys. All that matters is feeding the lake. I don't matter. The lake matters. You must keep feeding the lake.

Jean Rhys

Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the bridge when we came into town? The wake from it could tip us. I’m not canoeing it unless your name is Pocahontas.

Kim Harrison

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

Aldous Huxley

Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.

Mike Birbiglia

No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing it, and then imposing it on others. You can be pretty sure, if you are strictly conventional, that you are following genius--a long way off. And unless you are a genius yourself, that is a good thing to do.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.

Travie McCoy

One genius has made many clever artists.

Martial

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress