Quotes from Mehmet Murat Ildan

Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!

By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life!

By respecting the trees, you prove that you are a person who deserves to be respected!

By staying calm, you increase your resistance against any kind of storms.

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

Carry always your earplugs with you in case of emergency, like meeting with a politician!

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

Challenging the truth is like playing tennis against the wall! The defeat is inevitable!

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.

Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern, be compassionate, be individual, and be independent! Child! Don't be the man of anyone or any system, don't believe in any religious stories, and don't ever be silent against any oppressor! Child, turn your face to the light and walk towards the light!

Chiromancy is a stupidity! No man's fate is ever written on nowhere! In this universe, all the roads are our fate; all the stones and all the flowers are waiting for us! All the pages and all the days of the future are empty! On the roads to future, no one has footprints; we create them through walking!

Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

Civil disobedience is a lever which can move the world by using peace as a fulcrum.

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!

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

Considering the size of the universe, we might conclude that God likes to exaggerate!

Consistency is a contraceptive; it prevents the birth of new things!

Countries are rarely governed by the ethical and good people.