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Quotes by Turkish Authors

"You can save hundred words with just one look!"

"The wolf eats the lamb; the strong eats the weak. This is not God's Order, because it lacks justice, ethics and goodness. This chaotic structure belongs to the evolution! Evolution is primitive and it lacks high intelligence; it moves ahead by crawling and it is faulty! He who calls this system as God's Order openly insults God! We must know that God is not in this universe; He is somewhere else, somewhere where there is no evolution, where there is justice, ethics and goodness!"

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

"To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!"

"Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!"

"Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind!"

"Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!"

"You can sleep in a forest and have a nice dream. But when you wake up, you will have a much better dream: The Magnificent Reality!"

"What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!"

"Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered!"

"For the animals in nature, everywhere is their houses! When we touch anywhere in nature, we must know that we knock their doors!"

"Wise man is a wing; stupid man is a hole! You meet a wise man, you rise, you meet a stupid man, and you fall!"

"In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!"

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

"Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that you are in fact flying in the space at that crazy speed!"

"You don't have to love the storm but you have to know its language in case you meet it!"

"Life is a miracle and your most important goal in life is to protect this miracle. You have one more goal which is as important as this one and that is to protect the other miracles, the lives of others!"

"It is a privilege to exist, it is a privilege to live and all this made possible by our Earth, our beautiful warm home in this cold universe! If you are a man of high moral standing, you will protect the Earth with all your heart! Earth is the only real holy temple on earth! The more we love the earth, the more we will be loved by the earth!"

"Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!"

"He who knows Mars, Venus, Mercury or Jupiter very well will also know very well how very precious our earth is!"

"Man of simple life envies the man of complex life and man of complex life envies the man of simple life! The solution is simple: Let them taste the lives they envy. And thus the envy will disappear, it will replace with the truth!"

"Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!"

"Heart is the only thing which cannot be stolen without consent."

"Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!"

"Because the mankind very himself is a torturer, he created the concept of hell!"

"If you want to live above the clouds, you will miss the rain! When you want something beautiful, you must also know that you may lose some other beautiful and even more valuable things!"

"Every sorrow and every pain is a good reminding to us to be serious because we are living in a dangerous universe!"

"Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!"

"Curtains are our prisoners, they feel free only when they escape out of the windows and fly in the air freely! The moment they wave in the wind like a proud flag is the best moment of their lives!"

"Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch!"

"Look ahead, because life is before you, not behind you, or else you stumble!"

"Man is so stupid that all his life slips through his hands while trying to understand what the life is!"

"If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!"

"I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!"

"The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!"

"Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!"

"If you are not interested in your own country's problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!"

"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!"

"Earth is a flower in the Garden of Cosmos! And therefore, a flower on Earth is a flower within the flower!"

"You mortal! You time-poor! Don't waste your scarce time to be patient!"

"We live in a crowded and stifling world, my dear sir; just to be able to walk, we have to push and shove others willy nilly!"

"Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth!"

"It is good to say something beautiful; it is even better to say something right; but saying a right thing beautifully, that is the best!"

"Wise man is a good Sherpa, he takes you to the highest places!"

"We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!"

"We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and the ethics!"

"Are there anything more dishonourable and more coward than not marching in front of the army after taking the decision of war as a politician? Sending others for dying but keeping himself in safety is the affair of the low man only!"

"If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!"

"The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!"

"Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!"
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