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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Age and Aging, Youth
2

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

J. K. Rowling

Music
3

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.

J. K. Rowling
4

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

J. K. Rowling
5

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

J. K. Rowling

Curiosity
6

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

J. K. Rowling
7

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

J. K. Rowling
8

Fame clearly isn't everything.

J. K. Rowling
9

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. Rowling
10

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily -- weak people, in other words -- they stand no chance against his powers!

J. K. Rowling
11

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

J. K. Rowling

Happiness
12

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

J. K. Rowling

Human nature, Suffering
13

Horace likes his comfort. He also likes the company of the famous, the successful and the powerful. He enjoys the feeling that he influences these people. He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself. He prefers the backseat; there is more room to spread out.

J. K. Rowling

Professor Horace Slughorn
14

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

J. K. Rowling
15

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them."

J. K. Rowling
16

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.

J. K. Rowling
17

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling
18

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

Popularity
19

Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

J. K. Rowling

Death and Dying
20

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

J. K. Rowling
21

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

J. K. Rowling
22

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

J. K. Rowling

Truth, Lies and Lying
23

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

J. K. Rowling
24

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

J. K. Rowling
25

It is true, however, that those who have mastered Legilimency are able, under certain conditions, to delve into the minds of their victims and to interpret their findings correctly....

J. K. Rowling

Occlumency, Lord Voldemort, Legilimency
26

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

J. K. Rowling

Courage
27

Kreacher is what he has been made by wizards, Harry. Yes, he is to be pitied. His existence has been as miserable as your friend Dobby's. He was forced to do Sirius's bidding, because Sirius was the last of the family to which he was enslaved, but he felt no true loyalty to him. And whatever Kreacher's faults, it must be admitted that Sirius did nothing to make Kreacher's lot easier.

J. K. Rowling

Kreacher
28

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

J. K. Rowling
29

No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end.

J. K. Rowling
30

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

J. K. Rowling
31

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

J. K. Rowling

Pain
32

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

J. K. Rowling

Forgiveness
33

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.

J. K. Rowling
34

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

J. K. Rowling

Prophecy
35

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

J. K. Rowling

Legilimency
36

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

J. K. Rowling

Truth
37

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

J. K. Rowling
38

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.

J. K. Rowling

Power, Goodness and evil
39

Time is making fools of us again.

J. K. Rowling
40

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

J. K. Rowling

Death and Dying
41

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.

J. K. Rowling
42

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

J. K. Rowling
43

What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does.

J. K. Rowling
44

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

J. K. Rowling

Love, Obsessive love
45

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

J. K. Rowling
46

You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses -- I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.

J. K. Rowling
47

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no....anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.

J. K. Rowling
48

You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince! And you'd turn my inventions on me, like your filthy father, would you? I don't think so . . . no.

J. K. Rowling
49

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!

J. K. Rowling
50

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

J. K. Rowling
51

You think the dead we loved 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 plainly when you have need of him.

J. K. Rowling
52

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

Age and Aging, Youth

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

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

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.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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

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

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

Fame clearly isn't everything.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily -- weak people, in other words -- they stand no chance against his powers!

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

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

Horace likes his comfort. He also likes the company of the famous, the successful and the powerful. He enjoys the feeling that he influences these people. He has never wanted to occupy the throne himself. He prefers the backseat; there is more room to spread out.

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them."

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.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

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

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

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

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

It is true, however, that those who have mastered Legilimency are able, under certain conditions, to delve into the minds of their victims and to interpret their findings correctly....

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

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

No, I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up.... It always does in the end.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

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

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

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort.

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

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

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

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.

Time is making fools of us again.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

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

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no....anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.

You dare use my own spells against me, Potter? It was I who invented them - I, the Half-Blood Prince! And you'd turn my inventions on me, like your filthy father, would you? I don't think so . . . no.

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!

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

You think the dead we loved 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 plainly when you have need of him.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.