Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

Minds with fixed ideas are like granite: They can never be penetrated with soft words and gentle persuasions.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let the colours of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Death is the truth of the 21st century and we know that it was the truth of the older centuries as well but it may not be the truth of the next day or the next year or the next centuries ahead! Why? Because we have created the idea of immortality and once we think of something, once an idea is created, it will appear in reality sooner or later!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing is to walk on the right path without looking back, without knowing who is following you because you must walk with your own speed, with your own freedom! Your followers will catch you or your ideas somehow somewhere ahead, somewhere in time!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Good ideas never require guns; and if an idea requires guns, it is not a good idea!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

No ethical person wants to be a king or a queen, because there is no ethics and honor in putting yourself in a place higher than others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whichever path you choose, always know how to quit this path, always know where the exit is because once realised that the path is wrong, it has to be left immediately!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are a path-creator, you don’t need a path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The whole world may call you to follow the wrong path! In such a case, tell the whole world to buzz off!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!

~ 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

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Unless you leave the known paths, no one will realize your footprints!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You may lose your path, but you must never lose your hope, because hope is the path to all the paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a country where even humans are treated brutally, animals must be in a totally desperate condition!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don’t be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Make peace with people, make peace with animals, make peace with trees!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When everything seems too far away from you, don’t despair, return to yourself because you are the nearest thing to yourself! Accumulate energy with yourself! Then you will feel powerful to reach even beyond the far things!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no rural life in a countryman’s dream and there is no city life in a townsman’s dream! We often dream of the other shores, not our own shore!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The signature of our eyes, in other words, the way we look never changes even at the age of hundred!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Did you have a sad day? Don’t worry, you have all the night to compensate for it! Did you have a sad night? Don’t worry, you have all the day to compensate for it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is always possible that a stupid and a mean leader can keep winning the elections and as for the result, there is no possibility here, there is only certainty: His country will keep sinking!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the lost doesn’t want to be found, he cannot be regarded as the lost!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Twilight is a court; when the sun sets we are put on trial in this dusky court! All things we have done throughout the day are interrogated by our conscience, the invisible judge of our minds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If nobody is somebody for you, then it means you have lost your belief in people; if anybody is somebody for you, then it means you have much love for every person!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We use horses as our slaves; we chain dogs; we steal eggs from the chickens, honey from the bees; we make wallets out of crocodiles; we imprison the birds; we torture the bulls in the arenas; we whip the lions and beat the tigers in the circuses! What are we? Definitely not ethical creatures!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Wisdom is to internalise the experiences of other things, of everything! By observing the birds, you internalise the wisdom of the birds; by observing the Moon, you internalise the wisdom of the Moon! Wisdom is a process of adding the experiences of the universe to our minds!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan