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{{quote| "Accept the truth from whatever source it comes."}}
A relatively common device is to have valuable advice come from a completely unexpected source. Like, ''completely'' unexpected. You don't expect your average homeless person to want to talk, much less have a lesson they're prepared to teach you (that somehow specifically addresses your problem.) [[Hooker
Sometimes this is combined with the idea that [[Angel Unaware|angels disguise]] themselves as beggars and homeless people. It even goes back to [[Fairy Tale|fairy tales]] that have fairies disguising themselves as old beggar women, making this one of [[The Oldest Ones in
See also [[Dumbass Has a Point]] and [[Jerkass Has a Point]]. If the source of wisdom isn't just poor, but also oppressed, uneducated, and/or mentally challenged, it may be a [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the movie ''[[
* In ''[[Team America]]: World Police'', the main character has an epiphany at the words of a drunken vagrant, and repeats what he said word-for-word at the end of the film to save Team America's reputation.
* When Brendan Fraiser gets incarcerated in the remake of ''Bedazzled'', his cellmate gives him some advice which ultimately saves his soul. {{spoiler|Ever-so-slighty justified because said inmate is actually [[Divine Race Lift|God]].}}
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* ''Gone Fishin' ''
* After the heroes figure out that selenium is the weakness of the alien menace in the film ''Evolution'' (through, I might add, [[Solve the Soup Cans|a completely arbitrary deductive method]]) they wonder just where they're going to get enough selenium to save the day. It's the comic relief idiots that reveal the answer (selenium is the active ingredient in [[Product Placement|Head & Shoulders shampoo]]). When asked by their disbelieving biology professor how they knew ''that'' when their final coursework essay was entitled, "Cells Are Bad", they point out how silky and dandruff-free their hair is.
* In ''[[
** Parodied when Tony later repeats this quote word for word during a broadcast of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' he's hosting, and the director of the episode (also played by the real Tony Wilson --it's that kind of a film) promptly instructs the editor to cut around that tedious bullshit.
* ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' features this -- although justified, {{spoiler|as the homeless man providing Bruce with pithy yet wise messages morphs into [[Morgan Freeman|God]] at the end.}}
* ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off
== [[Literature]] ==
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* An episode of ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'' had this in a ''literal'' gutter: Maya spends a night in a sewer with a creepy informant trying to get evidence of illegal phosphate dumping after meeting her former college roommate and being jealous of her becoming a successful investigative journalist while Maya is stuck working in her father's fashion magazine. Eventually, she questions what she's doing and realizes she actually likes her current occupation. The creepy guy then says "Sometimes on our way to our dreams, we get lost and find a new one". Maya is surprised and impressed until the guy somewhat ruins the moment by saying he read the phrase on the wall of a brothel.
** This gets later used as a [[Brick Joke]] when she repeats the phrase to the rest of the crew and Elliot says "I think I wrote that in a wall somewhere".
* Subverted in the ''[[
** [[Double Subversion|Which is still true...]]
* In an episode of [[The Office]], Michael was surprised to receive relationship advice from a stripper, while Benjamin Franklin turned out to be "kind of a sleazebag."
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* A quest in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' involves finding out who sold a man's wife into slavery. One of the most useful sources in the quest is the local insane man who tells you exactly who did it. Although he thinks the wife who disappeared was kidnapped by Mole people who wanted to steal her hair, he's still of more use in the quest than ''any other person in town.''
** Also, there's Rotgut the ghoul in Freeside, a beggar will give you semi-useful information and gossip every time you give him a cap. He'll even give you info that will lead you to a solution to a sidequest.
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* [[The Stoner|Rumisiel]] in ''[[Misfile]]'' is usually surprisingly accurate when he's commenting on human nature, so much so you might be excused wondering if he [[Obfuscating Stupidity|really is that daft]]. [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=273 Exhibit A] and [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=1003 Exhibit B].
** Then again, not necessarily so suprising, considering he has [[World of Cardboard Speech|"seen the fall of empires and the murder of millions"]], [http://www.misfile.com/index.php?page=986 as suggested here]. Problem is, he's still a lazy bum.
* In ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
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