Albus Dumbledore - The wizard's best Quotes

It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

"My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?" Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. "If you insist..."

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. And above all, all those who live without love.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

I know what you are known as. But to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.

Your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.

Sirius was a brave, clever, and energetic man, and such men are not usually content to sit at home in hiding while they believe others to be in danger.

Regret is my constant companion. Do not let it become yours.

The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom.

Do you know why I admire you, Newt? More, perhaps, than any man I know? You don’t seek power or popularity. You simply ask, is the thing right in itself? If it is, then I must do it, no matter the cost.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Snape: "I wish... I wish I were dead..."
Dumbledore: "And what use would that be to anyone?"

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Dumbledore: "Voldemort had powers I will never have."
McGonagall: "Only because you're too - well - noble to use them."
Dumbledore: "It's lucky it's dark. I haven't blushed so much since Madame Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs."

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!

"You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?" called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. "Above such brutality, are you?"
"We both know that there are other ways of destroying a man, Tom," Dumbledore said calmly.

My own brother, Aberforth, was prosecuted for practicing inappropriate charms on a goat. It was all over the papers, but did Aberforth hide? No, he did not! He held his head high and went about his business as usual! Of course, I’m not entirely sure he can read, so that may not have been bravery.

Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

Yes, Harry, blessed as I am with extraordinary brainpower, I understood everything you told me. I think you might even consider the possibility that I understood more than you did.

Muggles are not lesser. Not disposable.

Everyone is scared of something.

You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

This may bring her number of actual predictions to two... I should give her a raise.

By all means continue destroying my possessions, I daresay I have too many.

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.

You have shown bravery beyond anything I could have expected of you tonight, Harry. You have shown bravery equal to those who died fighting Voldemort at the height of his powers. You have shouldered a grown wizard's burden and found yourself equal to it.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess... that I rather thought... you had enough responsibility to be going on with.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.

You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

Just like your mother, you're unfailingly kind. A trait people never fail to undervalue, I'm afraid.

You have never treated Harry as a son. He has known nothing but neglect and often cruelty at your hands. The best that can be said is that he has at least escaped the appalling damage you have inflicted upon the unfortunate boy sitting between you.

Cornelius, I am ready to fight your men – and win, again! But a few minutes ago you saw proof, with your own eyes, that I have been telling you the truth for a year. Lord Voldemort has returned, you have been chasing the wrong man for twelve months, and it is time you listened to sense!

Five years ago, then, you arrived at Hogwarts, neither as happy nor as well-nourished as I would have liked, perhaps, yet alive and healthy. You were not a pampered little prince, but as normal a boy as I could have hoped under the circumstances.

Mysterious thing, time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.

Every day, every hour, this very minute, perhaps, dark forces attempt to penetrate this castle's walls. But in the end, their greatest weapon is you.

"It is a long time since my last visit," said Dumbledore, peering down his crooked nose at Uncle Vernon. "I must say, your agapanthus are flourishing."

Oh, to be young, and to feel love's keen sting.

Only a true Gryffindor could have pulled that out of the hat, Harry.

I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure!

At Hogwarts, you'll be taught not only how to use magic, but how to control it.