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Turkish Aphorisms Quotes

“To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!”

“If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!”

“A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!”

“Your best walk is the one you walk with your own style! Imitating others means wiping out ourselves!”

“In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!”

“Careful minds build durable buildings; careless minds build rotten buildings!”

“You cannot forever escape from the storm; you must learn to stand up to it!”

“Always try to see behind what you see because all you need to see can be only at the behind of the thing you see!”

“People seem to be doing different things, but in reality they do the same thing: They just rush about without having any outstanding universal goal!”

“Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!”

“You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!”

“The hardest roads are often empty; the darkest paths are mostly silent; toughest destinations are almost peopleless! No easy road brings you great victory!”

“What do we feel when we look at a good photograph? We just want to be there, right at the exact moment that photo taken!”

“Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!”

“Here is a good way for the world to make a good progress: Let the less clever nations learn good things from the more clever nations!”

“Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!”

“In a petty theft you steal money, gold etc.; in an electoral theft you steal the future of a country! The second crime can be committed only by the meanest people! Such a heavy crime results in a heavy price!”

“Every time the rich ignore the poor, the rich become poorer! Poorest is the person who has all the means to help others but chooses not to!”

“Strange things are mind-opener because when we see something strange we immediately start thinking! Anything bizarre activates your brain; anything usual makes you sleep!”

“Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!”

“No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment; any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!”

“The desired modernization and rationalisation of Turkey will never be realised till the day the Modern Turks of Atatürk come to power because only modern and rational minds can create a modern and a rational country!”

“Sometimes it is good to throw some of your problems into the future and the good news is that there is a good possibility that you may never meet them again!”

“What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!”

“Challenge is an art; you must know whom to challenge, how to challenge and when to challenge well, otherwise defeat becomes the inevitable fate!”

“When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!”

“Every end of every day is the most important time of that day because you confront with your past and you obtain a chance for tomorrow not to repeat your past mistakes!”

“You can pull people to your own winter and freeze them up or you can take your sun to people’s own winter and warm them up! It is up to you to bring hell or heaven to people’s life!”