All Quotes by Albus Dumbledore

All Quotes by Albus Dumbledore

Here you can find the best Quotes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, one of the main characters of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling. He is the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the wisest wizard in the series, which is why Dumbledores quotes are very popular.

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams, Harry, and forget to live.
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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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...yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
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Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.
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When dreaming we enter a world, that's entirely our own.
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We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
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A child's voice, however honest and true, is meaningless to those who've forgotten how to listen.
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By all means continue destroying my possessions, I daresay I have too many.
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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.
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After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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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.
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Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
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Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
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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.
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People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
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Curiosity is not a sin. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.
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I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.
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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!
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A true leader does what is right, no matter what others think.
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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.
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This may bring her number of actual predictions to two... I should give her a raise.
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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!
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One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
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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.
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Power was my weakness and my temptation.
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Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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"Ah, music"' he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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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.
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It is my belief that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living. And above all, all those who live without love.
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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.
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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.
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"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..."
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
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Your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.
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Regret is my constant companion. Do not let it become yours.
Fantastic Beasts - 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald
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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.
Fantastic Beasts - 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald
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Memory is everything. Without it we are blind. Without it we leave the fate of our world to chance.
Fantastic Beasts - 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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The world as we know it is coming undone. Things that seem unimaginable today will seem inevitable tomorrow. Should you agree to do what I ask, you'll have to trust me. Even when every instinct tell you not to.
Fantastic Beasts - 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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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.
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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.
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Quotes about Albus Dumbledore

Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.
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Do you really intend to turn your back on your own kind? It was you who said we could reshape the world!
Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts - 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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I was never your enemy. Then or now.
Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts - 3: The Secrets of Dumbledore
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Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.
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Hermione: "There's been a lot of talk recently that Dumbledore got a bit old."
Harry: "Rubbish! Well, he's only... what is he?"
Ron: "150? Give or take a few years."
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"I am not paying for some crackpot old fool to teach him magic tricks!!" yelled Uncle Vernon. Hagrid seized his pink umbrella and whirled it over his head "Never-" he thundered "-insult-Albus-Dumbledore-in-front-of-me!"
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Hogwarts should be Dumbledore's final resting place.
You may not like him, Minister, but you can't deny: Dumbledore's got style.
Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.
Great man, Dumbledore. 'S long as we've got him, I'm not too worried.
He'll accept anyone at Hogwarts, s'long as they've got the talent. Knows people can turn out okay even if their families weren'... well... all tha' respectable.
Tis part of the house-elf's enslavement, sir. We keeps their secrets and our silence, sir, we upholds the family's honour, and we never speaks ill of them - though Professor Dumbledore told Dobby he does not insist upon this. Professor Dumbledore said we is free to-. He said we is free to call him a barmy old codger if we likes, sir!
I always thought Father might be the one who got rid of Dumbledore. I told you he thinks Dumbledore's the worst Headmaster the school's ever had.

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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me 'sir' Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.
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You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.
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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.
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