Quick, guess! Who’s green, has pointy ears, the skin of a Shar-Pei, got to live for 900 years, and like this speaks? Is it Kermit the Frog? Maybe Slimer? Or Gumby? You’ve missed on all three, because it’s the wisest green Grandmaster of Jedi - Yoda! Now, you might remember that we’ve already had an article on Star Wars quotes and jokes, but to miss out on the opportunity to dedicate one to the insightful humanoid alien Yoda would be a colossal blunder. Thus, we are presenting to you our top picks of wisdom that came straight out of the depths of only the most brilliant creature in an article dedicated solely to Yoda quotes!
While all Star Wars characters have had their moment to shine - even our beloved Wookie warrior Chewbacca, that is, if you understand Wookian - Yoda is by far the most enlightened of the bunch. And words he does not spare, whatever the topic - honor, life itself, more honor, a prophecy here and there - he encompasses everything there is to say in his jumbled speeches. Not to mention the fact that he was unbearably adorable in his babyhood, which makes his words fall straight into our hearts all the more. And it doesn’t even matter if you are a die-hard fan of the Star Wars franchise or just know the characters from memes; Yoda’s words are still as bright as those of world-renowned philosophers.
So, scroll right down you must, and check out the clever quotes you shall! After you are done reading and absorbing these gems of sensibility, vote for the Yoda-ism that is the genuine nugget of gold. Then, share this article with your friends, if you like, and see which of these intelligent quotes they would’ve picked as the best!
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“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
“Train yourself to let go of everything you are afraid to lose.”
This is pretty much Marcus Aurelius' Stoic philosophy. The Stoics would meditate on the things they love and practice letting them go. The point is to develop an attitude of placid acceptance and deep contentment.
“May the Force be with you.”
"Of the moment, be. In the moment, live. The art of remaining in the present, learn. Neither the past nor the future exists."
This reminds me of something a physicist said " There is no present bc as I talk to you I am in the future & the past has left me"
“Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.”
If only we could live backwards & Dance in the Rain when we're "Grown up"
“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.”
"A decision is yours alone to make. Yet remember you should that you make it also for the silent ones who stand at your shoulder."
“On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some are broken; some come back so different only their names remain.”
Is anyone else reading these thinking, "which dang movie was THIS line in"? Just me?
“Clear, your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.”
"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will."
"So great life is, to finish it no way there is. The more you would enter into it, the vaster would be the possibilities that open their doors."
"To live halfheartedly, this is the most stupid thing in life. Forever gone is the moment that is gone."
I question this one I don't think I ever heard/read Yoda saying something was stupid
"Close your mouth and open your ears, you must. Then hear what your true heart is seeking, you will."
“Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you?”
“Smaller in number are we, but larger in mind.”
"Age more than a count of heartbeats is. Age is how many mistakes you have made."
That must mean Yoda made a lot of mistakes, that being said I heard something that said "a wise man doth learn from their mistakes, but an even wiser man doth learn from the mistakes of others."
"Delicate flower truth is, but also the most precious treasure in life - because liberation it brings, freedom it brings."
"Your world you create, too, yourself you create. Things thoughts become. Burning inside you jealousy is, and poisoning you is anger; inside you greed is growing. And clouding your consciousness all these together are - destroying your individuality, your essential existence. "
"To your misery never pay too much attention, because if you pay attention, feeding it you are. Attention is food."
“Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be. As is your faith in the dark side of the Force.”
“To be Jedi is to face the truth and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.”
“Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me, soon night must fall.”
“Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness. If informed the senate is, multiply our adversaries will.”
"Through enjoyment life grows. Joy is the sutra. Be joyful and grateful - whatsoever you have. The whole question is this: in the world, doing what are you? A participant in it, are you? Or a watcher?"
Yoda wasn't a Buddhist, so he would never mention the Sutra. Fake quote. Shame.
"True to your freedom, remain. And arises in you, then, a totally different kind of being."
"This is what meditation is all about: absence of mentation. The mind is thinking no longer; silent it is."
“Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.”
“Secret, shall I tell you? Grand Master of Jedi Order am I. Won this job in a raffle I did, think you? ‘How did you know, how did you know, Master Yoda?’ Master Yoda knows these things. His job it is.”
“You think Yoda stops teaching, just because his student does not want to hear? A teacher Yoda is. Yoda teaches like drunkards drink...”
"A Jedi always sought to avoid a conflict. Infinitely more ways there are to reach a goal, Yoda had said many times. Try them all, you should."
"Share! Give! and given to you more will be. Be a miser, do not give, and less will be given to you, because need it you do not."
"For you to relax is all that is needed. At rest, be. And as it is accept the reality - a total 'yes', holding nothing back."
"Never step in the same river twice can you. Each time the river hurries on. Each time he that steps has changed."
"The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you."
"At the very source of your being you should be, where these three things you can feel: goodness, beauty and truth."
“Pain, suffering, and death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain”
“No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
“Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… To the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.”
“No longer certain, that one ever does win a war, I am. For in fighting the battles, the bloodshed, already lost we have. Yet, open to us a path remains. That unknown to the Sith is. Through this path, victory we may yet find. Not victory in the Clone Wars, but victory for all time.”
"The dark side. Always it speaks to us, from our pain. Our grief. It connects our pain to all pain, our hurt to all hurt."
“Powerful you have become. The dark side I sense in you.”
“To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.”
“When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.”
“Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.”
"Silence is not simply calmness or quietude. Over all words and thoughts it implies transcendence. A state of beyond, a state of pervasive peace, it denotes."
"Each choice, the branch of a tree is: what looked like a decision, is after only a pattern of growth."
"Like reflections in the mirror thoughts are, clouds passing in the sky, but not the clouds the sky is. Desires, memories, imagination, they all come and go."
"Concentrate on what I know is true while I wait for the mud to settle and the water to become clear."
"Herenow is joy. And to be joyful only one thing one needs, and that is: be joyful. Nothing else, no other requirement."
"Deeper than your mind is your heart. Love is deeper than logic."
"This courage to enter into a new adventure - make you more alive it will. And to people who are more alive, happiness happens."
"Each moment get out of the past, completely drop it. There it is no longer. Hang around, it does not. Of it be free."
"Doubt is a beautiful instrument, as far concerned as learning is; but not of any help doubt is in going beyond the mind. To go beyond the mind, you need trust."
“I have many children, as you seek you may find that this is the last one till he must die before he must reach the becoming of mankind. Many men have failed but I have surpassed their expectation of being a Jedi master.”
“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. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you… Me… The tree… The rock… Everywhere! Yes, even between this land and that ship!”
"Out of acceptance comes wisdom. Not an acquirement wisdom is, not knowledge wisdom is, not information. This quality of tremendous acceptance is wisdom."
"Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself."
"Better things than fighting, should a Jedi Master be doing! Seeking wisdom. Finding balance."
"Poetic you become when in love you are. In love continuously are those people who are called poets."
"Poetic you become when in love you are. In love continuously are those people who are called poets."
"Whatsoever you have done is nothing in comparison to that which you can do. And nothing is whatsoever you can do in comparison with that which you are."
“If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.”
“Wrong? Hmm. A long time, fought I did. Consumed by fear, I was, though see it I did not.”
“Yes, afraid. Hmm, surprised are you? A challenge lifelong it is, not to bend fear into anger.”
“I was not strong enough to defeat him. Like his master before him, be destroyed, he must.”
"Of harmony happiness is a shadow, it follows harmony. No other way to be happy there is."
