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Quotes About Perception

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
Art is beyond the enmity! That's why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As soon as it is seen, the extraordinary starts becoming ordinary!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Beautiful roads do not always lead to beautiful places! Heaven may be hidden at the end of an ugly road! Do not be deceived by the beginning; try to see the end!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Earthworms cannot be painters. Those who live in the darkness can never perceive and appreciate the beauties of the light!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every single moment of reality instantly turns into memories; reality can not be caught; we can only catch memories.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Everywhere we see shadowy minds, cloudy brains! World needs more light of wisdom!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
High intelligence is to think the unthinkable; genius is to realize the very unexpected one.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Human mind can grasp everything in the universe; but it cannot change everything!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just like the dead and deserted Moon, all things appear to be beautiful from far distance!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Literature is a microscope; it shows us the unseen!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Master Chuang Tzu says the spring insect knows nothing of the winter! We can also say suspicion knows nothing of the peace of mind!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan