Turkish Aphorisms Quotes

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

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

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

~ 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

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

To give light to others, you must first take light from others!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan