Quotes by Turkish Authors - Page 4

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Orhan Pamuk
Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A touch may not always be a love but love is always a touch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.
Orhan Pamuk
Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Think big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Have an objective in life! Or you feel lost in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Are you a part of a herd? Then shame on you! Until you leave your herd, you are no one!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Ours was a history of well intentioned beginnings that end with a fight at every turn.
Enver Aysever
Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darknness.
Orhan Pamuk
All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Humankind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible for humankind to grow by the improvement of only one part while the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains that the other half can soar into skies?
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Neither the stone that made you stumble is your enemy, nor the stone that helped you cross the river is your friend! Universe just lives its own life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.
Orhan Pamuk
It is good to think; but to think in a right way, that is great!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A seagull flying beautifully is heaven; a seagull hunting an innocent fish is hell! Existence is heaven and hell, joy and horror!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
Mehmet Murat ildan
It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.
Orhan Pamuk
By thinking continuously your past or your future, you kill your today which is the only substantial part of your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every nation needs a crystal clear mirror to see its stupidities, to see its hypocrisies, to see its faults and its evils! No nation is saint! Every nation’s history is full of primitiveness and barbarity, full of wars and murders! Let every nation sees its face very clearly! Let them face their faces so that in the future they may be something better!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you want to be a good writer, internalize the good writers; absorb them; integrate with their souls; embrace their minds; mingle with their life stories; in short, merge with them, lose yourself in them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When people like the path you walk and the style you walk in that path, they will start following you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Mystery is a genius teacher: It forces its students to think thoroughly and to ask many questions! The path of mystery gives you much more things than the path of known!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Not all the problems must be solved! Stick to this philosophy and you will save awful a lot of time! Stick to this philosophy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The economics we need is of the "seminar room" variety, not the "rule-of-thumb" kind. It is an economics that recognizes its limitations and caveats and knows that the right message depends on the context. The fine print is what economists have to contribute.
Dani Rodrik
Though the life is very difficult and at times quite tragic, we must nonetheless be happy for being existed, for being the miracle very itself!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Animals are good human beings and human beings are bad animals
Akif Pirinçci
If everyone bows in front of your wisdom, your greatest wisdom will be to tell them not to bow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If lots of men around you are growing a beard just because of political or ideological reasons, you refuse this, and if you have a beard, shave it off! Leave your herd to find yourself! Find your own style, not the style your ideology or your party is dictating on you! Remember, you build a sound character mostly through refusing, through saying no, through staying different!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A country where there are no freedoms is a black and white country; it is colorless and lifeless. Such a country needs nothing but colors, nothing but freedoms!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
First reach your target in your mind, then reaching your target in reality will just be a formality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If fame came near to you to get you, you must run away from it very fast! Because this is a matter of freedom and captivity!
Mehmet Murat ildan