Jedi Q by Category
Arranged by DT Strain, 2006.
The following is a re-grouping of the quotes from the “Jedi Q” according to subject matter. Unlike the “Jedi Q”, this document would not be any sort of “canon”, since there is no “one right way” to categorize. This document is presented only for convenience. Others may have differing but equally legitimate categorizations.
MINDFULNESS
1:1
Don’t center on your anxieties... Keep your concentration here and now where it belongs.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:2
...I should be mindful of the future.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
1:3
[Be mindful of the future] but not at the expense of the moment. Be mindful of the Living Force...
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:12
Concentrate on the moment. Feel, don’t think. Use your instincts.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:21
Be mindful of your feelings.
-- Mace Windu
1:24
Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
2:3
Be mindful of your thoughts... they betray you.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:9
...let go of your conscious self and act on instinct.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:10
Your eyes can deceive you; don’t trust them... Stretch out with your feelings.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:20
Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
-- Yoda
6:5
Bury your feelings deep down... they do you credit, but they could be made to serve [evil].
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
[note: 6:4 and 6:5 refer in some way to a specific matter on which Obi-Wan was eventually proven wrong. This may or may not modify the truth of the core message contained in these two quotes.]
6:7
...let go of your hate.
-- Luke Skywalker
6:9
Your thoughts betray you.
-- Luke Skywalker (and later Darth Vader)
WISDOM
1:4
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:6
There’s always a bigger fish.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:10
Greed can be a powerful ally.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:14
Whenever you gamble... eventually you lose.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:18
Don’t look back.
-- Schmi Skywalker
2:2
Dreams pass in time.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:4
...[politicians] are not to be trusted.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:5
It is my experience that Senators focus only on pleasing those who fund their campaigns, and they’re in no means scared of forgetting the niceties of democracy in order to get those funds.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:10
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
-- Yoda
2:11
Do not assume anything... clear your mind must be.
-- Yoda
3:2
...Twice the pride, double the fall.
-- Darth Tyranus
3:7
All who gain power are afraid to lose it...
-- Darth Sidious
3:12
Your arrogance blinds you...
-- Darth Sidious
4:4
You must do what you feel is right, of course.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:13
...there are alternatives to fighting.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:14
Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it?
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:1
War does not make one great.
-- Yoda
5:9
There is no why.
-- Yoda
5:10
[The large and the small are] no different; only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
-- Yoda
5:11
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda
5:14
That [because you don’t believe] is why you fail.
-- Yoda
5:16
Control, control! You must learn control!
-- Yoda
5:17
Always in motion is the future.
-- Yoda
6:3
...you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
6:8
Your overconfidence is your weakness.
-- Luke Skywalker
INTERCONNECTEDNESS, DESTINY, & THE FORCE
1:5
You and the Naboo form a symbiant circle. What happens to one of you will affect the other.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
1:7
Don’t worry, the Force will guide us.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:8
...Maxi big the Force.
-- Jar Jar Binks
1:13
May the Force be with you.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn (and many others)
1:15
Nothing happens by accident.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:17
You can’t stop the change, any more than you can stop the suns from setting.
-- Schmi Skywalker
2:6
Patience. Use the Force. Think.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:9
Reach out. Sense the Force around you. Use your feelings you must.
-- Yoda
3:5
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not.
-- Yoda
4:3
The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:5
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
-- Darth Vader
4:6
The Force can have a strong influence on the weak minded.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:8
[The Force] partially [controls your actions], but it also obeys your commands.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:11
In my experience there’s no such thing as luck.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:12
[With experience of the Force] you’ve taken your first step into a larger world.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:15
If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:16
Use the Force... Let go...
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:17
Remember, the Force will be with you always.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:12
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not, for my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it; makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
-- Yoda
5:13
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere...
-- Yoda
5:15
Through the Force, things you will see; other places: the future, the past, old friends long gone.
-- Yoda
6:1
Soon will I rest, yes. Forever sleep. Earned it I have.
-- Yoda
6:2
Strong am I with the Force, but not that strong [to not die]. Twilight is upon me and soon, night must fall. That is the way of things, the way of the Force.
-- Yoda
6:4
You cannot escape your destiny.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
6:11
You already have [saved me].
-- Anakin Skywalker
THE JEDI
1:9
I wish that were so [that no one can kill a Jedi].
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:11
He can see things before they happen. That’s why he appears to have such quick reflexes. It’s a Jedi trait.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:16
Training to become a Jedi is not an easy challenge, and even if you succeed, it’s a hard life.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:20
I shall do what I must...
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:23
The code forbids it [taking on a second apprentice while already having one].
-- Mace Windu
1:25
...I can only protect you. I can’t fight a war for you.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
2:7
[Arrogance is] a flaw more and more common among Jedi. Too sure of themselves they are. Even the older, more experienced ones.
-- Yoda
2:8
Attachment is forbidden [to a Jedi]. Possession is forbidden. Compassion... is central to a Jedi’s life.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:1
...Sith Lords are our specialty.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
3:3
...[killing an unarmed prisoner] is not the Jedi way.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:8
The Jedi use their power for good.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:10
My allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:1
For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:7
Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:2
A Jedi must have the deepest commitment... the most serious mind.
-- Yoda
5:3
Adventure... excitement... a Jedi craves not these things.
-- Yoda
5:4
A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force.
-- Yoda
5:8
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense; never for attack.
-- Yoda
6:10
I’ll never turn to the dark side... I am a Jedi...
-- Luke Skywalker
THE DARK SIDE & THE SITH
1:19
Hard to see the dark side is.
-- Yoda
1:22
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.
-- Yoda
1:26
Always two [Sith] there are; no more, no less... a Master and an Apprentice.
-- Yoda
2:1
The dark side clouds everything...
-- Yoda
2:12
Lies, deceit, creating mistrust are his ways [the ways of those who join the dark side] now.
-- Yoda
3:4
Careful you must be when sensing the future... the fear of loss is a path to the dark side.
-- Yoda
3:6
Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is... Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
-- Yoda
3:9
The Sith rely on their passion for their strength. They think inwards, only about themselves... The Jedi are selfless. They only care about others.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:11
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
3:13
...faith in the dark side of the Force [is misplaced].
-- Yoda
4:2
Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:5
...beware the dark side: anger, fear, aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow; quick to join you in a fight. But once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.
-- Yoda
[note: Yoda seems to believe in the above that the dark side will “forever” dominate one’s destiny without hope of redemption. While we might use Yoda’s words as a prime example of Jedi philosophy in most cases, one might note here that this particular point was refuted in the overall hopeful message of the Star Wars films. Other than that, the surrounding elements concerning the dark side in the above quote are likely to be valid.]
5:6
No [the dark side is not stronger]; quicker, easier, more seductive.
-- Yoda
5:7
You will know [the good side from the bad] when you are calm, at peace, passive.
-- Yoda
5:18
...if you choose the quick and easy path... you will become an agent of evil.
-- Yoda
5:19
...don’t give in to hate. That leads to the dark side.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
6:6
You don’t know the power of the dark side. I must obey my master.
-- Darth Vader
[note: This being designed as a guide to Jedi philosophy, Sith expounding on their beliefs in the superiority of the dark side have been rejected and excluded from this collection as inaccurate. However 6:6 has been included because of the ironic juxtaposition of the two sentences, the first alleging the ultimate power of the dark side and the second confessing powerlessness from a self proclaimed dark side user.]
The following is a re-grouping of the quotes from the “Jedi Q” according to subject matter. Unlike the “Jedi Q”, this document would not be any sort of “canon”, since there is no “one right way” to categorize. This document is presented only for convenience. Others may have differing but equally legitimate categorizations.
MINDFULNESS
1:1
Don’t center on your anxieties... Keep your concentration here and now where it belongs.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:2
...I should be mindful of the future.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
1:3
[Be mindful of the future] but not at the expense of the moment. Be mindful of the Living Force...
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:12
Concentrate on the moment. Feel, don’t think. Use your instincts.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:21
Be mindful of your feelings.
-- Mace Windu
1:24
Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
2:3
Be mindful of your thoughts... they betray you.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:9
...let go of your conscious self and act on instinct.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:10
Your eyes can deceive you; don’t trust them... Stretch out with your feelings.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:20
Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
-- Yoda
6:5
Bury your feelings deep down... they do you credit, but they could be made to serve [evil].
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
[note: 6:4 and 6:5 refer in some way to a specific matter on which Obi-Wan was eventually proven wrong. This may or may not modify the truth of the core message contained in these two quotes.]
6:7
...let go of your hate.
-- Luke Skywalker
6:9
Your thoughts betray you.
-- Luke Skywalker (and later Darth Vader)
WISDOM
1:4
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:6
There’s always a bigger fish.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:10
Greed can be a powerful ally.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:14
Whenever you gamble... eventually you lose.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:18
Don’t look back.
-- Schmi Skywalker
2:2
Dreams pass in time.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:4
...[politicians] are not to be trusted.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:5
It is my experience that Senators focus only on pleasing those who fund their campaigns, and they’re in no means scared of forgetting the niceties of democracy in order to get those funds.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:10
Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.
-- Yoda
2:11
Do not assume anything... clear your mind must be.
-- Yoda
3:2
...Twice the pride, double the fall.
-- Darth Tyranus
3:7
All who gain power are afraid to lose it...
-- Darth Sidious
3:12
Your arrogance blinds you...
-- Darth Sidious
4:4
You must do what you feel is right, of course.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:13
...there are alternatives to fighting.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:14
Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it?
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:1
War does not make one great.
-- Yoda
5:9
There is no why.
-- Yoda
5:10
[The large and the small are] no different; only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
-- Yoda
5:11
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda
5:14
That [because you don’t believe] is why you fail.
-- Yoda
5:16
Control, control! You must learn control!
-- Yoda
5:17
Always in motion is the future.
-- Yoda
6:3
...you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
6:8
Your overconfidence is your weakness.
-- Luke Skywalker
INTERCONNECTEDNESS, DESTINY, & THE FORCE
1:5
You and the Naboo form a symbiant circle. What happens to one of you will affect the other.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
1:7
Don’t worry, the Force will guide us.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:8
...Maxi big the Force.
-- Jar Jar Binks
1:13
May the Force be with you.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn (and many others)
1:15
Nothing happens by accident.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:17
You can’t stop the change, any more than you can stop the suns from setting.
-- Schmi Skywalker
2:6
Patience. Use the Force. Think.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
2:9
Reach out. Sense the Force around you. Use your feelings you must.
-- Yoda
3:5
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not.
-- Yoda
4:3
The Force is what gives a Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:5
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
-- Darth Vader
4:6
The Force can have a strong influence on the weak minded.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:8
[The Force] partially [controls your actions], but it also obeys your commands.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:11
In my experience there’s no such thing as luck.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:12
[With experience of the Force] you’ve taken your first step into a larger world.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:15
If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:16
Use the Force... Let go...
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:17
Remember, the Force will be with you always.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:12
Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size do you? And well you should not, for my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it; makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us.
-- Yoda
5:13
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere...
-- Yoda
5:15
Through the Force, things you will see; other places: the future, the past, old friends long gone.
-- Yoda
6:1
Soon will I rest, yes. Forever sleep. Earned it I have.
-- Yoda
6:2
Strong am I with the Force, but not that strong [to not die]. Twilight is upon me and soon, night must fall. That is the way of things, the way of the Force.
-- Yoda
6:4
You cannot escape your destiny.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
6:11
You already have [saved me].
-- Anakin Skywalker
THE JEDI
1:9
I wish that were so [that no one can kill a Jedi].
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:11
He can see things before they happen. That’s why he appears to have such quick reflexes. It’s a Jedi trait.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:16
Training to become a Jedi is not an easy challenge, and even if you succeed, it’s a hard life.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:20
I shall do what I must...
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
1:23
The code forbids it [taking on a second apprentice while already having one].
-- Mace Windu
1:25
...I can only protect you. I can’t fight a war for you.
-- Qui-Gon Jinn
2:7
[Arrogance is] a flaw more and more common among Jedi. Too sure of themselves they are. Even the older, more experienced ones.
-- Yoda
2:8
Attachment is forbidden [to a Jedi]. Possession is forbidden. Compassion... is central to a Jedi’s life.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:1
...Sith Lords are our specialty.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
3:3
...[killing an unarmed prisoner] is not the Jedi way.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:8
The Jedi use their power for good.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:10
My allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:1
For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
4:7
Remember, a Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:2
A Jedi must have the deepest commitment... the most serious mind.
-- Yoda
5:3
Adventure... excitement... a Jedi craves not these things.
-- Yoda
5:4
A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force.
-- Yoda
5:8
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense; never for attack.
-- Yoda
6:10
I’ll never turn to the dark side... I am a Jedi...
-- Luke Skywalker
THE DARK SIDE & THE SITH
1:19
Hard to see the dark side is.
-- Yoda
1:22
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering.
-- Yoda
1:26
Always two [Sith] there are; no more, no less... a Master and an Apprentice.
-- Yoda
2:1
The dark side clouds everything...
-- Yoda
2:12
Lies, deceit, creating mistrust are his ways [the ways of those who join the dark side] now.
-- Yoda
3:4
Careful you must be when sensing the future... the fear of loss is a path to the dark side.
-- Yoda
3:6
Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is... Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
-- Yoda
3:9
The Sith rely on their passion for their strength. They think inwards, only about themselves... The Jedi are selfless. They only care about others.
-- Anakin Skywalker
3:11
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
3:13
...faith in the dark side of the Force [is misplaced].
-- Yoda
4:2
Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
5:5
...beware the dark side: anger, fear, aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow; quick to join you in a fight. But once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.
-- Yoda
[note: Yoda seems to believe in the above that the dark side will “forever” dominate one’s destiny without hope of redemption. While we might use Yoda’s words as a prime example of Jedi philosophy in most cases, one might note here that this particular point was refuted in the overall hopeful message of the Star Wars films. Other than that, the surrounding elements concerning the dark side in the above quote are likely to be valid.]
5:6
No [the dark side is not stronger]; quicker, easier, more seductive.
-- Yoda
5:7
You will know [the good side from the bad] when you are calm, at peace, passive.
-- Yoda
5:18
...if you choose the quick and easy path... you will become an agent of evil.
-- Yoda
5:19
...don’t give in to hate. That leads to the dark side.
-- Obi-Wan Kenobi
6:6
You don’t know the power of the dark side. I must obey my master.
-- Darth Vader
[note: This being designed as a guide to Jedi philosophy, Sith expounding on their beliefs in the superiority of the dark side have been rejected and excluded from this collection as inaccurate. However 6:6 has been included because of the ironic juxtaposition of the two sentences, the first alleging the ultimate power of the dark side and the second confessing powerlessness from a self proclaimed dark side user.]
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