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