Turkish Wise Quotes

In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future!

The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!

Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!

What do you need in the New Year? You need a dream; your dream needs an action; and your action needs right thinking! Without right thinking, you can have only unrealised dreams!

There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!

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!

The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven’t happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!

There is no real silence for the sensitive ears and there is no real tranquility for the sensitive hearts!

Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!

When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!

When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!

If you are a kind and a peaceful person, you will see yourself when you look at an elegant flower!

Don’t say deep things to shallow people and don’t talk about shallow things with the deep people!

Every New Year must be celebrated at the heart of nature - in the middle of a forest or by the side of a lake under billions of stars - because it is nature who has made our existence possible!

You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!

No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!

Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!

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

If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Watching the infinite horizons gives you infinite dreams, infinite ideas, infinite paths! Choose a great target and then you will see that great instruments will appear for you to reach that target!

Clouds in the sky very much resembles the thoughts in our minds! Both changes perpetually from one second to another!

The more we pollute the earth, the less we deserve to live on earth!

If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!

Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!

Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!

Don’t follow any leader; don’t obey to anyone; crowds are slaves; take an independent stance; take orders only from your own mind!

Enlarge your windows till you get a window where you can see the whole universe with one look!

Not only try but try your best!

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!

Anybody can be a flower! Yes, you can be a flower too! Just be gentle and innocent; give no harm to anyone! And now you are a flower!

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Every morning is a revolution against the darkness!

Are you dreaming? Stop dreaming; come and watch the sunset, it is better than all the dreams!

Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!

A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silence, a single word acquires a great energy for work. War is cut short by a word, and a word heals the wounds, and there’s a word that changes poison into butter and honey. Let a word mature inside yourself. Withhold the unripened thought. Come and understand the kind of word that reduces money and riches to dust. Know when to speak a word and when not to speak at all. A single word turns the universe of hell into eight paradises. Follow the Way. Don’t be fooled by what you already know. Be watchful. Reflect before you speak. A foolish mouth can brand your soul. Yunus, say one last thing about the power of words – Only the word “I” divides me from God.

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!

You can never leave a place unless you leave that place in your mind!

If you sleep on the train, you will miss your station; if you sleep at the station, you will miss your train! You can control your fate only when you are awake!

The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!

Happiness has only one colour: The Bright! The bright of red, the bright of green, the bright of any colour! Happiness is bright! It shines, it sparkles, it glints!

The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?

A beautiful mind is like a beautiful path! The more you travel with it, the more you find peace and happiness!

Seeing the obvious is often harder than seeing the hidden!

Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!

Always be loyal to human values not to your country, because your country may well betray the human values!

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

A sad soul needs an infinite horizon which can throw all his sorrow into the silence of the eternal emptiness!

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

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

If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!

When the sky is fully covered by the birds, you will feel the winds of pure freedom beneath this sky!

The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!

No man thinks the same story when looking at a photo because every mind lived a different story!

Do not try to be attractive; just be natural because being natural is already attractive!

Sometimes we all want to disappear in the depths of an infinite path and the reason of this is obvious: We all come from the depths of infinity!

The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!

Getting bored pertains only to the stupid people in this planet of wonders! For the clever, even the simplest things of life - like sunrise or sunset - are a great source of entertainment!

Yes, there are plenty of politicians who are liars, there is no doubt about this! But some of them are not only liars but also serial killers because they deliberately send people to the wars!

Paris has history, it has art, it has wonderful architecture, it has literature, but much more important than all these, it has freedom! If a city cannot offer freedom to its dwellers, all its other beauties will be meaningless!

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!

The stupid are always in a tendency to create enemies; on the other hand the clever are always in a tendency to create friendships! Make friends with anything or anybody possible, in short, be clever!

In the future, churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, all of them will be museums! The intellectual progression of humanity will necessitate such a drastic and dramatic change in the human history!

To be the thing you see, stop thinking! To be wild waves, you must quit thinking, you must leave all the thoughts before the wild waves!

It is not possible for a house to own a spirit without owning windows with flowers!

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

Flexibility is an art of creating way outs within the cul-de-sacs!

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!

Plucking a flower and giving it to someone is not an act of kindness; it is a behaviour of killing a defenceless fragile beauty for the sake of our own interest!

No dark cloud can forever prevent the sun from shining!

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!

To give up dreaming is to betray yourself!

He was like an autumn without leaves, he was unreal!

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

If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!

The more money you spend on guns, the less money you spend on people! More weapons, less happiness; more guns, more misery!

When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!

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!

Inaction is the worst action of human beings!

Your first purpose is to find a purpose for yourself. And your second purpose must not immediately be trying to reach that purpose you found but to investigate thoroughly whether that purpose is really necessary for yourself or whether it is worth at all to struggle for it! Because millions are fighting for a purpose which will in no way make them happy at the end!

What is left after war is silence: The silence of the death; the silence of the debris; the silence of the birds! After war even the screams of sadness are silent because the pain is in the very depths of the soul!

Not every lost soul wants to be found, because not every lost is lost, some of them found something or many thing or even everything in their lostness!

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!

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!

When the unexpected meets with the unprepared, over there we find the greatest astonishments!

Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!

Infinite horizons belong to those who have infinite imagination!

It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!

If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!

The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!

This morning do something different: When you wake up in the morning, wake your forgotten and forsaken dreams up as well, wake them up like an insisting rooster!

Endless stairs require endless effort!

To think is sacred; let every person think freely! To express what you think is sacred; let every person express his thought freely! If you do this, you prove that you are a conscientious and a moral human being! If you don’t do this, you just declare yourself being fascist!

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!

In your most desperate moments where you crawl on the ground like worms, sometimes you suddenly hear the voice of a savior, the voice of the Music which immediately carries you away to the stars!

There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!

Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!

They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!

There were fat cats and skinny cats. The long-tailed and the bobbed. The daring young leapers, and the old windowsill sleepers. Balls of waddling fluff, smooth-coated prowlers, and hairless ones that looked fragile and wise. The tiger-striped, the ring-tailed, and the ones with matching coloured socks and mittens. There were tabbies and calicos. Manx and Persians. Siamese and Bombay. Ragdolls and Birmans. Maine Coons and Russian Blues. There were Snowshoes and Somalis, Tonkinese and Turkish, and many, many more. Brown and beige and orange and grey and black and white and silver cats, each with gleaming eyes of emerald, or sapphire, or amber. A rainbow of precious stones.