Albus Dumbledore
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Albus Dumbledore is the headmaster in the popular book series Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling.
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- "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I woud like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 1997
- "After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 1997
- "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."
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 1997
- "Fear of a name increases fear of a thing itself."
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - 1997
- "It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets - 1998
- "You think the dead we love 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
- "I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.... At these times... I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one's mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure."
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2000
- "Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed."
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2000
- "Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2000
- "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!"
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2000
- "It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies."
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2000
- "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
- "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
- "He [Voldemort] never paused to understand the incomparable power of a soul that is untarnished and whole."
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - 2005
- "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - 2005
- "Soon we must all make the choice between what is right and what is easy."
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie) 2005
