“Manwho lives in three places in the past, in the present, and in the future can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth eternity.”

“Many are less fortunate than you may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.”

“If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.”

“When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.”

“It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.”

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”