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Quotes About Wisdom

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A mad who knows that he is mad is not fully mad!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man with a great curiosity will never get bored even if he lives millions years!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A student who considers everybody and everything as a teacher will eventually be the teacher of the teachers!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A wise quote can only change a wise man! Therefore, wise sayings are for the wise men, not for the fools! The sunflowers turn their face toward the Sun, the fools, toward the darkness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All governments like the ignorant, because their existence depends on them! If the society becomes wise, governments cannot survive, at least the bad ones cannot!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Amicus scientia est amicus Deus: Friend of science is the friend of God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
An ocean which thinks there is nothing to learn from a lake is not a wise ocean!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Angels want peace; devils want war! Wise man wants tranquillity and creation; stupid man wants noise and destruction!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Anyone who truly grasps the fact of limited time curses the patience blesses the hastiness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan