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"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
―Qui-Gon Jinn, to Jar Jar Binks^[src]

Qui-Gon: "I don't have anything else." [waves hand] "But credits will do fine."

Watto: "No, they won't."

Qui-Gon: "Credits will do fine."

Watto: "No, they won't. What, you think you're some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? I'm a Toydarian. Mind tricks don't work on me, only money."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, trying to haggle with Watto^[src]

"There are many realities in the universe, some of them quite harsh. One reality that is inescapable is that there is nothing more valuable than a friend. More than food, more than shelter, and more than weaponry, an ally can save your life."
―Qui-Gon Jinn, helping the Wookiees resist the Trade Federation^[src]

"Give a Wookiee bantha meat, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a Wookiee to hunt bantha, and he'll eat for a lifetime."
―Qui-Gon Jinn, in the hunting tutorial on Alaris Prime^[src]

"Your focus determines your reality."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, teaching Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

Obi-Wan: "Master, why do you keep dragging these pathetic life-forms along with us when they are of so little use?"

Qui-Gon: "He seems that way now perhaps, but you must look deeper, Obi-Wan."

Obi-Wan: "I've looked deep enough, and there is nothing to see!"

―Obi-Wan Kenobi, chiding Qui-Gon Jinn for bringing along Jar Jar Binks^[src]

Qui-Gon: "I'm ambassador to the Supreme Chancellor. I'm taking these people to Coruscant."

Battle Droid: "Where are you taking them?"

Qui-Gon: "To Coruscant."

Battle Droid: "To Coruscant. Uh... that doesn't compute. Uh, wait, uh... you're under arrest!"

―Qui-Gon Jinn, confusing a battle droid^[src]

Padmé: "Are you sure about this? Trusting our fate to a boy we hardly know. The Queen will not approve."

Qui-Gon: "The Queen doesn't need to know."

Padmé: "Well, I don't approve."

―Queen Amidala and Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

"Secrets must be exposed when found. Detours must be taken when encountered. And if you are the one who stands at the crossroads or the place of concealment, you must never leave it to another to act in your place."
―Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

Jar Jar: "My forgotten. Da bosses would do terrible tings to me, terrible tings to me if me goin' back dere."

Qui-Gon: "Do you hear that?"

Jar Jar: "Yah."

Qui-Gon: "That is the sound of a thousand terrible things heading this way."
Obi-Wan: "If they find us, they will crush us, grind us into tiny pieces, and blast us into oblivion."
Jar Jar: "Oh. Yousa point is well seen."

―Jar Jar Binks, reluctant to lead Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi to Otoh Gunga^[src]

Door: "State your business."

Qui-Gon: "I would like to speak with Captain Neg."

Door: "Captain Neg does not wish to see you."

Qui-Gon: "I have little tolerance for model Dx5 security doors."

Door: "You are incorrect." [laser batteries emerge] "I am a model Dz5 with improved defenses!"

―Qui-Gon Jinn, angering a security door^[src]

"You've been a good apprentice, Obi-Wan, and you're a much wiser man than I am. I foresee you will become a great Jedi Knight."
―Qui-Gon Jinn, to Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

Qui-Gon: "Anakin's victory gave us the parts we needed, but one of us gave him something, too... a reason to win."

Padmé: "One of us? What do you mean?"

Qui-Gon: "I advise you to consult a mirror, Padmé."

―Qui-Gon Jinn and Padmé Amidala^[src]

Obi-Wan: "I have a bad feeling about this."

Qui-Gon: "I don't sense anything."

―Qui-Gon Jinn doubts his apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

Qui-Gon: "Being ready is your choice, my Padawan."

Obi-Wan: "But I do choose. I want to begin the training. I don't understand what you mean."

Qui-Gon: "When you know why you are not ready, you will be ready."

―The spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

Anakin: "You're a Jedi Knight, aren't you?"

Qui-Gon: "What makes you think that?"

Anakin: "I saw your laser sword. Only Jedi carry that kind of weapon."

Qui-Gon: "Perhaps I killed a Jedi and stole it from him."

Anakin: "I don't think so. No one can kill a Jedi."

Qui-Gon: "I wish that were so."

―Anakin Skywalker and Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

"There's always a bigger fish."

―Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

Obi-Wan: "The Sith were before Master Yoda's time, were they not, Master?"

Qui-Gon: "Nothing was before Yoda's time, Padawan."

―Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

Qui-Gon: "Relax." [Jar Jar stops panicking, collapses]
Obi-Wan: "You overdid it."
—Qui-Gon Jinn, using a mind trick to calm Jar Jar Binks^[src]

"I'm not testing you, Obi-Wan. Life tests you! Every day it brings you new chances for triumph or defeat. And if you pass the test, it doesn't make you a Jedi. It makes you human."
―Qui-Gon Jinn, to Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

"I have felt certain of many things that have not been so. There are many hidden truths in a galaxy such as ours."
―Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

"Whenever you gamble, my friend, eventually you lose."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, to Watto^[src]

Obi-Wan: "So much for thank-yous."

Qui-Gon: "He is still worried about his son. He hides his fear well."

Obi-Wan: "He hides his manners better."

―Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi talk about King Frane^[src]

Gunray: "You! You laid hands upon my person! What do you mean in doing this?"

Qui-Gon: "Saving your life. Something evidently pleasing to neither of us, but necessary."

―Nute Gunray and Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

Qui-Gon: "You bore all the responsibility for what happened. You went over and over your mistakes. You must know this, Obi-Wan—it is Anakin who chose to turn to the dark side. Grief did not push him there. You did not push him there. He made the choice."

Obi-Wan: "There were so many things I should have seen. So many places I should have corrected him."

Qui-Gon: "Yes. But you must accept your regret the way you accept your mistakes. Then move on."

Obi-Wan: "Someone told me that once, long ago."

Qui-Gon: "Pity you didn't listen."

―Obi-Wan Kenobi, communing with the spirit of Qui-Gon Jinn on Tatooine regarding the fall of Anakin Skywalker^[src]

Qui-Gon: "Don't center on your anxieties, Obi-Wan. Keep your concentration here and now, where it belongs."

Obi-Wan: "But Master Yoda said I should be mindful of the future."

Qui-Gon: "But not at the expense of the moment. Be mindful of the living Force, young Padawan."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, instructing Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

"Life does not treat you fairly or unfairly, it merely is. It is up to each of us to be fair, or unfair."
―Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

Qui-Gon: "We come for information only."

Helb: "That is probably the one thing I do not have to sell."

Qui-Gon: "That is all right, for I do not wish to buy it."

―Qui-Gon Jinn and Helb^[src]

Qui-Gon: "What did we learn while we were at UniFy?"

Obi-Wan: "I didn't learn anything except that people who work for companies send too many memos."

―Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi after spying on the company UniFy^[src]

Obi-Wan: "Do not defy the Council, Master, not again."

Qui-Gon: "I shall do what I must, Obi-Wan."

―Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

Clee: "In the Senate? A Senator is doing this?"

Qui-Gon: "Why not? They are rarely no better and sometimes worse than most beings."

―Clee Rhara and Qui-Gon Jinn^[src]

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."

―Qui-Gon Jinn, to Jar Jar Binks^[src]

Qui-Gon: "Most beings in the galaxy do not kill without purpose. If you can discover what that purpose is, you can forestall a battle."

Obi-Wan: "And those who kill but have no reason?"

Qui-Gon: "They are the ones to worry about."

―Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

"You must own the rain, Obi-Wan. It must be part of you, an extension of you. If you fight it, it will win."
―Qui-Gon Jinn, teaching a lesson to fourteen-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi^[src]

Qui-Gon: "His security checks are flawless. His record is incredibly clean."

Tahl: "Yet he has no family. Never married or had children. And he sure moved around the galaxy."

Qui-Gon: "You could say all those things about me."

Tahl: "Well, you are a suspicious character."

―Jedi Masters Qui-Gon Jinn and Tahl, while investigating a starfighter saboteur suspect^[src]

Qui-Gon: "Well, I have acquired a pod in a game of chance, the fastest ever built."

Watto: "I hope you didn't kill anyone I know for it, huh?"

―Qui-Gon Jinn and Watto^[src]

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