Turkish Aphorisms Quotes

If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!

Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

To reach a target, you must never see it as unreachable!

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!

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!

Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

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!

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!

We have one thing in common with umbrellas: We both exist because the rain exists!

You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!

There are many peaceful ways to get rid of a fascist government and economic war against such a government is the best way amongst all these ways! And what is the economic war? It is to stop feeding the economy that feeds the fascist government, it is to take out your own individual brick from the wall of pro-government economy. Halt the food of the devil! Don’t forget that it is you who is feeding the hyena that bites you!

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!

A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!

When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!

Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!

In matters of love: When giving, be generous! When taking, be thankful!

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

Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!

With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!

You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!

To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!

Whenever we look at a photograph, the memories in the photograph become our memories as well!

Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!

Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!

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!

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

Instead of hiding behind the curtain, be the curtain itself; you will never be found!

When you see a lion tearing apart a zebra, what sort of divine order you see there? What we see there is nothing but savagery, injustice and chaos, in short, we see a primitive disorder, we see an evolutionary cruelty and a primitive disturbance deprived of any kind of ethics!