Best Turkish Thinkers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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!”

“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!”

“Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!”

“Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!”

“Solitude is the best school where you can scrutinize your past mistakes and make necessary corrections for the future; it is your greatest opportunity to create a better fate!”

“The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!”

“Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!”

“If you want to win a great victory on any matter, make your move unexpectedly!”

“No one is ordinary because every person carries the wisdom of his own unique path!”

“There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!”

“Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!”

“Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.”

“The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!”

“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”

“Postman’s bag is always heavy because it carries the life itself: It carries all the sorrows and all the joys, all the worries and all the hopes!”

“Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!”

“Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!”

“Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!”

“All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!”

“Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!”

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”

“In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!”

“The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!”

“To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!”

“To smile when you are defeated means your defeat is already defeated!”

“It is not possible to find a person where smiling does not suit him or her!”

“There is no mountain on earth which is greater than the mountain of human madness!”

“Anywhere you find peace of mind is your home!”

“We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!”

“If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!”

“A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!”

“Many lives are wasted by just waiting for something good to come from the horizon instead of going to the horizon and finding something good over there!”

“No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!”

“Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!”

“You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!”

“Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!”

“Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!”

“When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!”

“Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!”

“Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!”

“Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!”

“Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!”

“Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument who can protect you in this savage universe!”

“You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!”

“As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!”

“Universe is frightening; we need a protector and a meticulous mind is the best protector; it is like a watchful dog which guards us all the time!”

“Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!”

“Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!”