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Famous Mehmet Murat Ildan Quotes

“If you are not interested in your own country’s problems, than what difference remains between you and a cow eating grass in a quiet corner unaware of anything around itself!”

“Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!”

“Without seeing the whole picture and without knowing the whole story of a man’s life, our judgements about him will most probably be wrong and unfair!”

“You must let other people to challenge your truths; you must let them to question your faith and the reason for this is very simple: Your truths might be very wrong; your faith might be very mistaken. Don’t be a castle; you need bridges surrounding you, not walls! And remember that walls belong only to cowards!”

“An honourable man is fair even to his enemies; a dishonourable man is unfair even to his friends!”

“We are doomed to live the feeling of being lost because temporal beings are doomed to feel this way; this is something that transitory bodies cannot avoid!”

“If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!”

“Simple is pretty because it is plain; simple is effective because it gives an understandable clear message; simple is genius because it gains our admiration with a minimum effort!”

“Most countries have only few honest politicians and this is just like having a body with only few good organs functioning!”

“To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to imagine a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!”

“The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!”

“Which is the most successful country on Earth? In whichever country dying is the most difficult thing, that country is the most successful one! And which is the most stupid country on earth? In whichever country dying is the easiest thing, that country is the most stupid one!”

“When a train approaches a station, the first thing that enters the station is not the train itself, but its distant view, the light shining from its window, the sound of the train, the air that the train pushes in front of it, etc., and then the train itself comes; when a person enters a place, the first thing that enters is not the person itself, but its glory that goes ahead of it and reaches everywhere before it!”