Mehmet Can Quotes & Sayings

All the ports are hidden in every port because through one port you can reach all the ports! Anywhere is actually everywhere because there is a hidden door in anywhere opening to everywhere! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

On a sunny clear day, you can improve your body; on a rainy fogy day, you can improve your mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You know what the future is? It is a heavy fog which hides inside everything you can imagine! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How much weight you can carry in your mind will determine how far you can go in life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best thing you can give to a child is to create an environment where the child can develop an independent mind so that he will be the man of no one and the instrument of no system! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word 'waiting' out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

By walking on the path of unhappiness you can learn the things that can never be learned on the path of happiness! He who knows well only the light is very poor; he who knows well the darkness besides the light is very rich! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How can a man live without drinking water? How can a man live without breathing air? How can a man live without making jokes? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

From a rat hole you can go to the stars or from the stars you can go to a rat hole! Your destiny is open to every possibility! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every forest is a good library where you can find many books! Animals, trees, even rocks are the books of this mystic library! Read them to acquire their story! When you obtain the story of someone or something, you obtain their wisdom as well! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe closer than the Earth can see it! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If rising makes you famous, don't give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If the truth is with you, no power can knock you down! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sunset is a moment where we can wait for all day long to witness it! And not only for one day, but we can wait for all the days of all the years! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To be able to see a magic, you need to have a mind that can detect that magic! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any second can be the beginning of anything; any second can be the end of anything! Welcome to our universe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Only a sheep with lion's heart can attack wolf, not the sheep with lion's teeth or with lion's claw! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are faster than the storm, the storm can never catch you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To think right and say it to others is to create a universal shelter where every man can enter and feel safe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If there is no one around you that you can teach, it is time to leave to another place where you can teach; if there is no one around you to teach you, it is time to leave to another place where you can be taught! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If they offer giving you a willpower or a thousand ways, choose the willpower, because with it, you can create a million ways! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Don't talk me about religion! Don't talk me about tales for children! Be serious! Trust science, because only the science can save you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Small minds just like small stones can never create giant waves. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Opening a dark box can make you very unhappy! But for the love of truth, never hesitate even a second to open it, because the truth is the way to true happiness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a street has a spirit, no matter how narrow it is, we can breathe comfortably over there. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The most beautiful things can only be created by the most free minds! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can see your real face only when you stop deceiving yourself! Until then, you will always see someone which is not you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sometimes you completely forget your own works, your own poems, and your own words, but others remember them line by line, word for word! That is the greatest present you can ever have for your works! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you have nothing to leave behind you, you can at least leave your dreams; someone else may use them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A child can be very happy with very simple things; adult must do the same! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sun must set so that we can long for its rise! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can teach your child to be compassionate and to be ethical, you will be the greatest teacher! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you see a strange thing, try to understand it! If you can understand it, nothing strange will remain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What have you got if you do not have a peaceful corner where you can refresh yourself? — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man. — George W. S. Trow

If you look at the monkeys, you can learn many things about the men; if you look at the men, you can learn many things about the madness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No dream can be more beautiful than the reality itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When everything is going greatly, you can never see the real faces of the people! Wait for the hard times to see the true face! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No man with a complex life can be happy! The simple secret of the happiness is simple life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can always close your eyes to the truth and you can be sure that the truth will in no way take this into consideration! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

In a stupid society, a clever man can come into the power; but in a clever society no stupid can come into the power! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can't control it, you will be the toy of your own mind! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Once in a lifetime every man encounters a very special staircase which can take him to very high grounds; but only some of them grasp this and use the stairs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you are sad, do not bow your head in despair, lift it up; you can see and fight better when your head is up! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Looking for a great teacher who can tell you what will happen in the future? Ask the ancient ruins what will happen! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can't earn honour by getting an award from a dishonourable person! You only earn dishonour! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Waiting for a divine message from the skies? You are wasting your time! Message has been delivered once and for all when the universe was formed! The message is the rules of this universe! Try to understand the rules and play according to the rules! In the second stage, you can start changing the rules that you don't like! All is possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Every person and everything can change the destiny of every other person and every other thing, in a good or in a bad way! We are all destiny makers; everything is a destiny maker! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

However little you may be, you can always be a giant by helping others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

No matter what happens, as long as you think positively, hopelessness can never touch you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You have so many miles and so many years to reach the stars; if you ignore this, you can reach over there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ideas can be killed only by other ideas! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sand can resist to water; but it cannot win. Ignorant can resist to knowledge; but it cannot win. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What love can achieve, nothing else can achieve! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Look at the places where no one looks at; and so you can see the things no one sees! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tram's road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is only one real burden of life: The Death. All other burdens can always be handled! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good writer must be like the birds of a dark forest; you can't see them, but you can hear their mysterious and wise voices! — 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

Are you comfortable? That's good. But there is somewhere at least someone is uncomfortable! And this should somehow make you uncomfortable too! The world can be a better place only through this way, through thinking others! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Where does the road goes? Sometimes it is better not to ask this question and take a chance! This kind of courage can create a wonderful magic! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives. — Mehmet Oz

We all can be defeated; to cope with this eternal fact opens great ways for the future glories! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Choose a summit; make a plan to reach there! If you think you can't make it, choose a new summit, make another plan. Or give up the summits, make new plans, find lower targets! In short, be 'flexible' in life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good musician should say: We can live without air but not without music! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Mankind has one great habit, a bad habit: To create rules on behalf of God! Unless A God appears on the sky and says 'Here are the rules,' do not take any rule serious! Remember that in this universe, there is no port that you can take refuge apart from the reason and the science! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Rain cannot pass through the glass, but light can; light cannot travel deep into the caves, but rain can! We all have different abilities! Neither rain is superior to light nor light is superior to rain! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Without reading many different books, you can never leave the port of ignorance and can never obtain the peaceful mind of knowing the truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You go to a place for a visit and deep in your heart you think that this place can be your own home and Zurich is such a place! — Mehmet Murat Ildan