By Albus Dumbledore (character in Harry Potter series)
- “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
- Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets – 1993
- “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 – 1995
- “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – 1997
By J.K. Rowling
- The wizards represent all that the true “muggle” most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!
- Salon (31 March 1999)
By Mark Twain
- With ignorance and arrogance, success is assured