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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
"Smile is a good reply to the dark world."
"When the wind blows, curtain steps aside; when the genius blows, the intelligent stands aside!"
"More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened!"
"Watch carefully the journeys of others because the beginning of your own journey is hidden in the journeys of others!"
"Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!"
"A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!"
"You can leave your place you are sitting at without leaving that place either by playing music or by listening to music! Music is a migration to the unknown!"
"Work hard to gain the heart of the people; if you gain it, you will gain everything else!"
"You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!"
"There is nothing uglier than an unrighteous and foolish majority!"
"A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!"
"By looking at only one place, you miss everything in all the other places! Look everywhere to see everything!"
"Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!"
"It is always easy to create an ordinary city; what is difficult is to create an extraordinary one, peaceful and restful one, smart and tidy, artful and cultivated one, in short, a livable one! And Zurich is such a city!"
"If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!"
"What lies behind the innocent looks? What lies behind the kind words? What lies behind the gentle smiles? Do not remain on the surface of the things; go behind them so that you can compare the seen with the unseen, the surface with the depth to find out whether they are the same or not!"
"There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other's life!"
"It's very dangerous to invent something in our times; ostentatious men of the other world, who are hostile to innovations, roam about angrily. To live in peace, one has to stay away from innovations and new ideas. Innovations, like trees, attract the most destructive lightnings to themselves."
"The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking, the road to happiness will mysteriously appear before you!"
"Pro-government press is not a press it is just a lie-generating ugly machine; it is a guard dog, guarding only the official thieves, not the public!"
"You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?"
"Truths are immortal, my dear friend; they are immortal like God! What we call a falsity is like a fruit; it has a certain number of days; it is bound to decay. Whereas, what we call truth is like gold; days, months, even centuries can hide gold, can overlook it but they can never make it decay."
"The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us."
"A victory which is not honourable is nothing but a defeat!"
"Library: The Temple of the Wise!"
"No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!"
"Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence!"
"For the land, the sea is beautiful; for the sea, the land is beautiful!"
"Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!"
"There are hundreds of intelligent and big brains in every country in the world to run that country successfully but somehow and often either an immoral stupid or a charlatan imbecile comes to power!"
"Man with right thinking is awake and can see everything, man with wrong thinking is asleep and can see nothing!"
"You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!"
"I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren't we all a little crazy anyway?"
"You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!"
"No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!"
"A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!"
"A man stroking a dog's head means the universe is stroking the universe; a child playing with a little dog means the universe is playing with the universe! If the universe is a theatre play, then we can be sure that there is only one player: The universe itself! Everything we see is the same player!"
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!"
"If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!"
"While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe."
"By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars."
"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!"
"In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy!"
"Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!"
"When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!"
"In solitude, you will find yourself; in crowds, you will find others! You need both of them: Solitude and crowds; yourself and others! Without others, what to do with yourself? Without yourself, what to do with others?"
"Don't say deep things to shallow people and don't talk about shallow things with the deep people!"
"Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!"
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