Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2023 Update)
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101. “The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.”

— Dan Brown

102. “I’m somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.”

— Dan Brown

103. “PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!”

— Dan Brown

104. “Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root of predujice.”

— Dan Brown

105. “There is a fine line between insanity and genius.”

— Dan Brown

106. “The Lord works in mysterious ways.”

— Dan Brown

107. “It is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of God.”

— Dan Brown

108. “Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. – Lanky Man with green eyes.”

— Dan Brown

109. “Darwin’s theory described the survival of the fittest, but not the arrival of the fittest.”

— Dan Brown

110. “English, of course. The universal language of science- Maximilian Kohler.”

— Dan Brown

111. “In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction.”

— Dan Brown

112. “God’s will is your deepest desires.”

— Dan Brown

113. “Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.”

— Dan Brown

114. “It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.”

— Dan Brown

115. “I’m fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we’re not quite seeing.”

— Dan Brown

116. “Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.”

— Dan Brown

117. “The media is the right arm of anarchy.”

— Dan Brown

118. “Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. – Martin Luther.”

— Dan Brown

119. “A little faith can do wonders...”

— Dan Brown

120. “Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.”

— Dan Brown

121. “In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history’s modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the drawing board while the rest of us stand back and criticize.”

— Dan Brown

122. “The key to our scientific future,... is hidden in our past.”

— Dan Brown

123. “Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us.”

— Dan Brown

124. “Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.”

— Dan Brown

125. “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. For Langdon, the meaning of these words had never felt so clear: In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction.”

— Dan Brown

126. “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”

— Dan Brown

127. “Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government’s differences.”

— Dan Brown

128. “The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.”

— Dan Brown

129. “The most self-righteous in life become the most fearful in death.”

— Dan Brown

130. “I don’t read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of ‘The Exorcist.’ It was the first and last horror book I’ve ever opened.”

— Dan Brown

131. “Scientific advancement carries risk. It always has. Space programs, genetic research, medicine – they all make mistakes. Science needs to survive its own blunders, at any cost. For everyone’s sake.”

— Dan Brown

132. “To fly or not to fly, that’s the question.”

— Dan Brown

133. “We fear what we do not understand...”

— Dan Brown

134. “Enjoy it. One way or another, your days are numbered.”

— Dan Brown

135. “In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn’t want to believe its world has changed.”

— Dan Brown

136. “If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.”

— Dan Brown

137. “Every spiritual metamorphosis is preceded by a physical one.”

— Dan Brown

138. “Compassion is a universal language.”

— Dan Brown

139. “Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true... written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don’t understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us... vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called... re-membered... -re-cognized... as that which is already inside us.”

— Dan Brown

140. “Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease – they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.”

— Dan Brown

141. “When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.”

— Dan Brown

142. “I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it’s almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.”

— Dan Brown

143. “Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.”

— Dan Brown

144. “Science is the antithesis of faith,” Kirsch continued. “Science, by definition, is the attempt to find physical proof for that which is unknown or not yet defined, and to reject superstition and misperception in favor of observable facts. When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.”

— Dan Brown

145. “Orang yang mengatakan bahwa kekuasaan tidak memunculkan kecanduan pasti belum benar-benar berkuasa.”

— Dan Brown

146. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – JOSEPH CAMPBELL.”

— Dan Brown

147. “My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.”

— Dan Brown

148. “Nietzsche: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”

— Dan Brown

149. “For the human brain,” Edmond explained, “any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with ‘insufficient data,’ and so our brains invent the data – offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order – creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.”

— Dan Brown

150. “Scientists and spiritualists often use different vocabularies to describe the exact same mysteries of the universe. The conflicts are frequently over semantics, not substance. – Robert Langdon.”

— Dan Brown