Albus Dumbledore

Character in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince From: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Hogwarts Headmaster; wise mentor providing philosophical insights and revelations about Horcruxes

318 quotes

"One cannot be wounded by dead things."
Philosophy
"This is night, Draco."
"The truth must dazzle gradually."
Truth
"Your failures, though, have been more valuable."
Wisdom
"We will have a need of you yet."
Hope
"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."
Kindness
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
Wisdom
"It is important to fight and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then can evil be kept at bay though never quite eradicated"
Courage
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy"
Wisdom
"Memory is not what I am showing you now, Harry. I am showing you extracts from several memories"
Knowledge
"You are not a bad person. You were placed in an impossible situation as a very young man"
Kindness
"Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love"
Love
"The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse"
Wisdom
"Severus, please"
Peace
"I am not worried, Harry. I am not worried at all"
Courage
"One cannot be half a Death Eater"
Truth
"Your mother was there for you at the end of your life. She died to save you"
Family
"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it"
Leadership
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided"
Strength
"I have been careless, and so a student has died"
"There are other ways of destroying a man besides killing him"
Power
"Knowledge is power"
Education
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure"
Death
"Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it"
Hope
"Those who are prepared to die for an idea are seldom killed for it"
Faith
"The connection between you and Voldemort is real and powerful"
Truth
"I see myself holding a pair of thick woolen socks"
Imagination
"There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry. Nothing whatsoever"
Fear
"Horcruxes are not mere objects, Harry. They are manifestations of evil"
Knowledge
"I am deeply ashamed of myself. When I discovered what I had done"