45 Albus Dumbledore Quotes That Will Guide You Through Life

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

2. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."

3. "Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!"

4. "The best of us sometimes eat our words."

5. "Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."

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

7. "You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?"

8. "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

9. "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."

10. "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."

11. "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 that rises against them and strikes back!"

12. "We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on."

13. "I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind."

14. "Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure."

15. "It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated."

16. "You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night. You found him inside yourself."

17. "Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe."

18. "Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."

19. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often."

20. "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness. Nothing more."

21. “For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.”

22. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

1. “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.”

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

3. “Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.”

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

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

6. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

7. “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

8. “Curiosity is not a sin … but we should exercise caution with our curiosity. Yes, indeed.”

9. “The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”

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

11. “You place too much importance, and you always have done, 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!”

12. “We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.”

13. “Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human. The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”

14. “To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

15. "Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it."

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

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

18. "The truth: It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution."

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

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

21. “Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty if they forget what it is to be young.”

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

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