Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man's character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train.

Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything!

Poverty is a scorpion; it stings the poor and it also stings the men with high conscience who feel sad about the poverty; the rest is immune to it!

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in their heads.

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Haughtiness is the high heel shoe of the low men!

King is not a happy man, but a happy man is a king!

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!

Mortal man! You've wasted your time mostly with wrong and empty beliefs! And now you have started understanding that most important thing in life is existence!

A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!

In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!

Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!

Man often overstates the trivial things and understates the vital ones!

Monkey can make a long jump with his muscles; and man, with his wisdom!

Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!

The first step to be a good man is this: You must deeply feel the burden of the stones someone else carrying.

Try to see the world from the eyes of an old man! Old eyes are a good place to begin with for understanding the truths!

No government likes the clever and the honorable men, because it is impossible to bridle them; they are independent!