Ildan Wisdom Quotes

In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can’t see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The heaven of a grasshopper is the wheat field; the heaven of man is the same place, the very earth itself where we get our food and build our happiness!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can defeat your own calamity, you will be a hope for others and thus you can defeat the calamity of others too!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don’t be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

One of the most stupid things in life is not to enter the door which is wide open just because of the fear that this door will be shut and going back will be impossible! Have some courage, because even a harvest mouse leaves his hole to discover new places!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If there is a very strong love behind you that you can lean against to it, nothing can ever shake you very strongly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Here is a tragicomic reality of all the regimes: People work hard to feed their thief politicians, their thief kings and thief queens or their thief presidents! And therefore the tragicomic reality of all the times is this: There can exist no thieves without the support of people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do the dreams have also their own dreams? Yes they have and those dreams also have their own dreams! So when you create a dream, you create infinite number of dreams! When you dream of a beautiful house, then that beautiful house will create new dreams!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan