Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free!

New Year's most glorious light is sweet hope!

Wherever there are birds, there is hope.

For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs!

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!

The strength of your mind determines the depth of your desperation! The weaker the mind, the deeper the desperation!

Through the darkest paths, you can reach the brightest heavens and this marvellous possibility will keep you full of life even in the middle of most horrible utter darknesss!

If you are a hope for someone, that's very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that's excellent!

It is wonderful to have great ambitions and splendid dreams as long as these ambitions and dreams are wonderful for the humanity too!

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.

When you see something impossible, this is often because you have a limited imagination!

May be it is good that we can't quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

Children always give this simple message: Be natural, be sincere, be yourself!

The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone!

In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!