Complete List Of 90 Best Dumbledore Quotes From Harry Potter

Let’s recall some of the best things Albus Dumbledore has ever said with these 90 greatest Dumbledore quotes!

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Best Dumbledore Quotes

1. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

3. “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

4. “Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

5. “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.

“After all this time?”

“Always,” said Snape.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

6. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

7. “Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

8. “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. . . .” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

9. “Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

10. “Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Albus Dumbledore Quotes

1. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

2. “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.” ― Dumbledore, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

3. “But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?”

“For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!”

From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.

“After all this time?”

“Always,” said Snape.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

4. “Dumbledore’s army, still recruiting.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

5. “For future reference, Harry, it is raspberry…although of course, if I were a Death Eater, I would have been sure to research my own jam preferences before impersonating myself.” ― Dumbledore, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

6. “Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

7. “The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

8. “I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

9. “Even if I could, I wouldn’t. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

10. “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves it’s own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” ―Dumbledore, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

11. “But you’re dead,’ said Harry.

‘Oh, yes,’ said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.

‘Then… am I dead too?’

‘Ah,’ said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. ‘That is the question, isn’t it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

12. “Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body – they were saved.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

13. “I say to you all, once again — in the light of Lord Voldemort’s return, we are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. Lord Voldemort’s gift for spreading discord and enmity is very great. We can fight it only by showing an equally strong bond of friendship and trust. Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

14. “You are omniscient as ever, Dumbledore.”

“Oh, no, merely friendly with the local barmen.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

15. “You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon…” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter Dumbledore Quotes

1. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

2. “He must have known I’d want to leave you.”

“No, he must have known you would always want to come back.” ― Dumbledore, .K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

3. “I DON’T CARE!” Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. “I’VE HAD ENOUGH, I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON’T CARE ANYMORE!”

“You do care,” said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

4. “He accused me of being Dumbledore’s man through and through.”

“How very rude of him.”

“I told him I was.”

Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry’s intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore’s bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knee. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady.

“I am very touched, Harry.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

5. “It’s going to be all right, sir,” Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore’s silence than he had been by his weakened voice. “We’re nearly there … I can Apparate us both back … don’t worry …”

“I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

6. “I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way…”

“Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

7. “There is a room in the Department of Mysteries, that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear to reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.” ― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

8. “Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won’t rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

9. “Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve rather lost my liking for them — but I think I’ll be safe with a nice toffee, don’t you?”

He smiled and popped the golden-brown bean into his mouth.

“Alas! Ear wax!” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

10. “At that moment, Harry fully understood for the first time why people said Dumbledore was the only wizard Voldemort had ever feared. The look upon Dumbledore’s face as he stared down at the unconscious form of Mad-Eye moody was more terrible than Harry could have ever imagined. There was no benign smile upon Dumbledore’s face, no twinkle in the eyes behind the spectacles. There was cold fury in every line of the ancient face; a sense of power radiated from Dumbledore as though he were giving off burning heat.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

11. “He felt even angrier that Dumbledore was showing signs of weakness. He had no business being weak when Harry wanted to rage and storm at him.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

12. “Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling

13. “Very astute, Harry, but the mouth organ was only ever a mouth organ.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

14. “Oh, he’s not unbalanced,” said Dumbledore quietly. “He’s just suffered a severe disappointment.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

15. “I have no power to make other men see the truth, or to overrule the Minister of Magic.” ― Albus Dumbledore

Quotes From Dumbledore

1. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2. “I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamber pots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon – or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

3. “Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

4. “Oh, there you are, Albus,’ he said. ‘You’ve been a very long time. Upset stomach?’

‘No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,’ said Dumbledore. ‘I do love knitting patterns.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

5. “It’s lucky it’s dark. I haven’t blushed so much since Madam Pomfrey told me she liked my new earmuffs.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

6. “P.S. I enjoy acid pops.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

7. “Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

8. “Three turns should do it.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

9. “Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed,” said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. “I am sure Gryffindor and Hufflepuff are waiting to celebrate with you, and it would be a shame to deprive them of this excellent excuse to make a great deal of mess and noise.” ― J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

10. “Minerva, kindly go to Hagrid’s house, where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

11. “The — the prophecy . . . the prediction . . . Trelawney . . .”

“Ah, yes. How much did you relay to Lord Voldemort?”

“Everything — everything I heard! That is why — it is for that reason — he thinks it means Lily Evans!”

“The prophecy did not refer to a woman. It spoke of a boy born at the end of July —”

“You know what I mean! He thinks it means her son, he is going to hunt her down — kill them all —”

“If she means so much to you, surely Lord Voldemort will spare her? Could you not ask for mercy for the mother, in exchange for the son?”

“I have — I have asked him —”

“You disgust me.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

12. “I cared about you too much,” said Dumbledore simply. “I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words, I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.

“Is there a defense? I defy anyone who has watched you as I have — and I have watched you more closely than you can have imagined — not to want to save you more pain than you had already suffered. What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vague future, if in the here and now you were alive, and well, and happy? I never dreamed that I would have such a person on my hands.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

13. “I take my hat off to you — or I would, if I were not afraid of showering you in spiders.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

14. “That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay rise…” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

15. “The truth.” Dumbledore sighed. “It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution. However, I shall answer your questions unless I have a very good reason not to, in which case I beg you’ll forgive me. I shall not, of course, lie.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Dumbledore Inspirational Quotes

1. “Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2. “I see you are —”

“Dumbledore’s man through and through,” said Harry. “That’s right.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

3. “Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you,” said Dumbledore quietly.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

4. “My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?’ Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape’s ferocious, anguished face. ‘If you insist …” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

5. “I feel I owe you another explanation Harry,” said Dumbledore hesitantly. “You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess…that I rather thought…you had enough responsibility to be going on with.”

Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore’s face into his long silver beard.” ― Dumbledore, JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

6. “And I must draft an advertisement for the Daily Prophet, too,’ he added thoughtfully. ‘We’ll be needing a new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher…. Dear me, we do seem to run through them, don’t we?” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

7. “But he understood at last what Dumbledore had been trying to tell him. It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew — and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents — that there was all the difference in the world.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

8. “You think it – wise – to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?”

“I would trust Hagrid with my life,” said Dumbledore.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

9. “Prongs rode again last night… You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night… You found him inside yourself.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

10. “Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Famous Dumbledore Quotes

1. “Don’t count your owls before they are delivered.” ― Dumbledoore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

2. “But Dumbledore says he doesn’t care what they do as long as they don’t take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

3. “Alas! Earwax!” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

4. “I believe your friends Misters Fred and George Weasley were responsible for trying to send you a toilet seat. No doubt they thought it would amuse you.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

5. “I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

6. “You will also find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

7. “The sound frightened Harry beyond anything he had experienced all evening. For the first time, Dumbledore was pleading.

Snape said nothing, but walked forwards and pushed Malfoy roughly out of the way. The three Death Eaters fell back without a word. Even the werewolf seemed cowed.

Snape gazed for a moment at Dumbledore, and there was revulsion and hatred etched in the harsh lines of his face.

“Severus … please …”

Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore. “Avada Kedavra!” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

8. “You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts…but you cannot deny he’s got style…” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

9. “The Mirror will be moved to a new home tomorrow, Harry, and I ask you not to go looking for it again. If you ever do run across it, you will now be prepared. It does not dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. Now, why don’t you put that admirable cloak back on and get off to bed.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

10. “You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Professor Dumbledore Quotes

1. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

2. “One can never have enough socks,” said Dumbledore. “Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

3. “You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

4. “The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

5. “Of course we still want to know you!” Harry said, staring at Hagrid.

“You don’t think anything of that Skeeter cow – sorry, Professor,” he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore.

“I have gone temporarily deaf and haven’t any idea what you said, Harry,” said Dumbledore, twiddling his thumbs and staring at the ceiling.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

6. “The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

7. “Tell me one last thing,” said Harry. “Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?”

Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry’s ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

8. “Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, The Tales of Beedle the Bard

9. “In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling

10. “I don’t need a cloak to become invisible.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

11. “As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard’s robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

12. “Mysterious thing, Time. Powerful, and when meddled with, dangerous.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

13. “Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

14. “I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.” ― Dumbledore. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

15. “Like a tongue on frozen steel, like flesh in flame —” ― Dumbledore, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Final Word

Dumbledore quotes from “Harry Potter” are more than just words in a story. They teach us about life, love, and making good choices.

Dumbledore might be a character in a book, but his wisdom is real and can be used in our everyday lives. Whether it’s about facing our fears, the power of love, or the choices we make, his words stay with us, like a friend’s good advice.

Remember, as Dumbledore says, “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” Let’s keep these quotes in our hearts and minds as we go about our day, finding a little bit of magic in our own world.