Dumbledore's best quotes (from the Harry Potter books)
The top 3 according to 74 votes from people: After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure. · It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. · Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?. (Updated Mar 19, 2022.)
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are", death as the next great adventure and the dead who never truly leave us: Albus Dumbledore's most quoted lines as written in the books, not the films.
Top 15
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After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).
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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?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007).
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000).
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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998).
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Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007).
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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999).
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000).
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10
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).
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It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000).
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…when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave…
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000).
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).
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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.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003).
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Humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997).
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Comments (1)
Good call keeping it to the books. The Deathly Hallows ones hit so much harder on the page.