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Quotes About Individuality

A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction is correct, there will be a meeting in the same place!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Be different so that people can see you clearly amongst the crowds.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every queen is a woman, but not every woman is a queen.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
History never recorded this phrase: 'The Mass of Wise.' Because the wise is not too abundant to form masses!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Master Seneca says that 'No one can wear a mask for very long.' This is true; but someone can wear different masks for very long!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Max Lucado says that 'A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.' That is true and a man who wants to find out the truth must also do the same thing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nobody is "superior" to anybody else, only "different", that is all!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
On the way to truth, walk with the crowds or walk all alone; but walk always and walk under every condition!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The system wants you to be either a bow or an arrow; refuse both, because there is a third choice: To be an archer!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are... We are all of them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We cannot respect something just because millions or billions believe in it! We can respect something only if it is complying with the high intelligence and ethics!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan