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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"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!"
"There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!"
"Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom, man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence."
"An old horse, an old bird, an old man, an old tree, they all represent a great survival in the jungle of cosmos; they deserve to be applauded and respected!"
"Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!"
"A dream like beautiful place is much more important than the beautiful place in a dream, because it is real!"
"If the lambs were flying, wolves would have also the wings to fly!"
"The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!"
"All good that you have done for the humanity, keep it like a secret; do your goodness in the shadow! Let one day others find this secret, preferably long after you have passed away!"
"Reflection ingeniously knows how to convert a beauty into a super beauty!"
"Clever nations are the ones who keep changing their governments! Because power must change hands otherwise it will get spoiled and rot!"
"The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!"
"Only the exceptional paths bring exceptional glories!"
"What a magnificient look a clear sky has! And what a magnificient look a clear mind has!"
"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"
"We take thousands of decisions in life, the very best ones are often the ones taken boldly and unhesitatingly!"
"To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!"
"Live the future when it comes, not now, only when it comes! Now, only live the now!"
"The master of thinking is like a master of sword! He can easily win any fight with a high art and a great elegance!"
"There is no such thing as a non-dangerous dictator! Like all the venomous snakes, all dictators are dangerous! Then what is the antidote? Antidote is our love for freedom and our unshakable determination on the matter of keeping this love!"
"You want to get lost? Then get lost amongst a marvellous beauty!"
"The world is full of fools and foolishness, the mission of every clever man is to watch the fools from a distance and develop sound plans to repair the damages created by them!"
"History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus."
"Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!"
"Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air!"
"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!"
"The most dangerous enemy is the one who can easily make friends with his potential victims!"
"The longest walk of your life does not happen when you walk great distances lonely but it happens when you walk very shortly with the boring people!"
"Sometimes a gloomy street is all a sad person needs! A magical relief may arise from the meeting of the two sad things!"
"If you speak, that is rain; if you speak too much, that is flood!"
"The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!"
"If half of a country is rotten, the other half will soon start rotting as well!"
"Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!"
"We must thank to all the failed people in the history as they showed us the true way to success!"
"Be calm like a calm lake, then you will look beautiful like a beautiful calm lake!"
"The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!"
"Killing flowers for our own happiness is a wrong attitude, it is a wrong culture! We must change this attitude and abolish this culture! Let the flowers live!"
"Minds need the unusual, because the unusual has the power to shake the mind!"
"An illusionist can make himself disappear; a musician can do the same thing: When he plays a piano, after a while we start seeing only the music, not the man!"
"Since there are thousands of reasons to be happy, let us smile so many thousands times!"
"The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight."
"Patience is a complot of the Devil to immobilize the men! Mortal men should be impatient and impetuous, patience is only for the immortals!"
"Everybody walks to somewhere or everybody runs to somewhere simply because those somewheres don't walk to us or don't run to us! No struggle happens, no nothing happens!"
"Update your belief! If necessary, throw it to the bin! Don't exaggerate your belief! Remember that your belief is not that much important; the important thing is what the science, what the reason and the truth say! And remember also that with the earthquake of knowledge many beliefs have collapsed and again many more will collapse!"
"You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!"
"You are an ordinary person till the day you realise that you have the power to change the world!"
"There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and A°stanbul is such a city!"
"Here is a dream-life: A life amongst the flowers!"
"One thinking man in a crowd worth a thousand men!"
"Tragedy is a disaster, but desperation after that tragedy is a much greater disaster!"
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