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Quotes by Turkish Authors
"All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!"
"Every moment of existence is a volcano full of truth! Every single moment is ready to explode, may be now, may be two minutes or may be two years later! Truths are ready to erupt! Every single moment is ready to erupt! Be silent; wait for the eruptions!"
"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
"He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's!"
"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"
"Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see!"
"One-man regimes belong to old eras, they involve clowning and arbitrariness! In the twenty-first century only the silly and larky nations give permission to such third-class contemptible regimes!"
"When you take pictures of nature with passion, nature poses for you more passionately!"
"When the tram has arrived at the stop, you have to be there! Calculate where a good opportunity will stop and be there!"
"When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!"
"The door refuses and resists any key which does not belong to that door!"
"When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!"
"It is obvious that most people are not living the life they want to live! The easiest solution for this problem is to give up the life you want to live. And the hardest solution is this: Give up everything which prevents you to live the life you want to live!"
"Your worst enemy can be your best teacher!"
"When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery!"
"When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!"
"A stone thrown up into the air is bound to fall down, and absolute power is like a huge stone thrown up into the air."
"On the matters where your country is wrong, don't take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!"
"A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!"
"When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!"
"Crowds don't think; they act; they don't produce ideas, they produce actions!"
"Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!"
"If my path is right, let it be your path; if your path is right, let it be my path!"
"Important decisions that will affect a nation's fate or humanity's fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history, they require a sound reason and a powerful logic and masses often do not have such characteristics!"
"When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!"
"With fear, you crawl on the ground; without fear, you fly in the skies!"
"Once you take sword in your hand, you will lose your right to talk about the peace! Man of peace and love never takes the sword in his hand!"
"In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!"
"An uneducated society will eventually turn into something lower than a herd of animals!"
"Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!"
"Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!"
"World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!"
"To find elegant souls, you must wander in the elegant places!"
"It is not right to walk alone on the golden road of truth! Enlighten as many people as you can and walk with them!"
"If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!"
"If your yesterday was much better than your today, then today you will most probably walk around in your yesterday!"
"Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!"
"If the world you created on your own is stronger than the real world, then the real world disappears and you stay alone with your own created world!"
"A night without stars is a night wasted."
"The Moon is our local port opening to the universe; in the future, it's through that port we will sail our ships to the coastless oceans."
"Amongst all the virtues, high awareness is the most precious one!"
"Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word 'waiting' out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!"
"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"
"Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!"
"The message of the bicycle: Simplicity is a blessing!"
"What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!"
"Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!"
"Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!"
"When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!"
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