The Wisdom of Albus Dumbledore

[Amy]

No: HPFGUIDX 11544

I recently finished re-reading the HP books and as I stumbled across the brilliantly written Dumbledore lines, I jotted them down.  Sirius actually has one or two in here as well.  Anyway, this topic was visited briefly about a million posts ago titled "The Quotable JKR" and I think someone mentioned around Christmas that it would have been more interesting to have a "Dumbledore thought of the day" calendar instead of the ones they came out with.  Regardless, I thought I'd post the "Wisdom of Albus Dumbledore" at the end of a rather trying week<g>.  Feel free to add!

 (Note: I've now lent some of my books out so I couldn't go back and check to ensure that I had the exact quote.  When I wrote them down originally, I wrote them down straight from the book...but there's no telling what happened between the hand written notes and this post<G>.  I also missed a few of the chapters and page and since my books are out on loan, I couldn't check them.)

Amy


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"It does not do to dwell in dreams and forget to live…"
Albus Dumbledore (PS/SS Ch. ?. pg. ?)
 
 
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Albus Dumbledore (PS/SS Ch. 17. pg. 297)
 
 
"Always use the proper name for things.  Fear of the name increases dear of the thing itself."
Albus Dumbledore (PS/SS Ch. 17 pg. 298)
 
 
"The truth…it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore be treated with great caution."
Albus Dumbledore (PS/SS Ch. 17, pg. 298)
 
 
"As much money and life as you could want - the two things most human beings would choose above all.  The trouble is that humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."
Albus Dumbledore (PS/SS Ch. ?. pg. ?)
 
 
"There are all kinds of courage.  It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies - but it takes just as much to stand up to our friends."
Albus Dumbledore (PS/SS Ch. 17, pg. 306)
 
 
"It's our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
Albus Dumbledore (CoS Ch 18, pg 333)
 
 
"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?  Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you are in need of him."
Albus Dumbledore (PoA Ch 22, pg 427)
 
 
"What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?  Only innocent lives…"
 
"You don't understand.  He would have killed me."
 
"Then you should have died!  Died rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you."
 Sirius and Peter (PoA Ch 19, pg 375)
 
 
"Curiosity is not a sin, but we should exercise caution with our curiosity…"
Albus Dumbledore (GoF ch 30, pg 598)
 
 
"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
Sirius Black (GoF Ch 27, pg 525)
 
 
"You are blinded by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius!  You place too much importance, as you always have done, 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!"
Albus Dumbledore (GoF Ch36, pg 706)
 
 
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."…"Differences of habit and language are nothing if  our aims are identical and our hearts are open."
Albus Dumbledore (GoF Ch 37, pg 723)


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