J.K. Rowling Quotes

10 quotes

British author and philanthropist (born 1965)

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”

"What's life without a little risk?-Sirius Black"

on Life

"Failure means a stripping away of the inessential."

on Failure

"Death is just life's next big adventure."

on Death

"If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

on Character

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

on Life

"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates."

on Wisdom

"I think you're working and learning until you die."

on Learning

"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."

on Life

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

on Wisdom