47 Greatest Dumbledore Quotes That Will Improve Your Life

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Harry Potter is the most well-known literary franchise in history. The series has been published with many titles and has sold over 400 million copies.

The main character, Harry, has a mentor named Dumbledore, who ends up giving Harry advice on how to defeat Voldemort. While he doesn’t have his own magical abilities, he is extremely intelligent and uses his books to teach Harry how to use his magic potential.

Dumbledore was not just a mentor for Harry Potter; he was also the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most well-known wizards and headmasters in history. He was Headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from around 1949 to 1969, which is when he died.

As the series is set primarily over a span of twenty-eight years, Albus Dumbledore appears (in flashbacks) during the first six books and all seven films to serve as Harry’s mentor, guide, confidant, and protector. In addition to his relationship with Harry, Dumbledore also forms relationships with several other characters throughout the series – most notably Severus Snape.

Check out the list of his most inspiring quotes to learn valuable life lessons.

47 Greatest Dumbledore Quotes

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

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”

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

“While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one.”

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

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

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

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

“Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

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

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

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

“We cannot protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come.”

“Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.”

“This pain is part of being human . . . the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.”

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

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that.”

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

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

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

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

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

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

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

“Let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”

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

“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.”

Happiness can be found in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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

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

“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”

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

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

“Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.”

“The best of us sometimes eat our words.”

“Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.”

“We must try not to sink beneath our anguish . . . but battle on.”

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

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

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

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!”

“It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated .”

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

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

“In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.”

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