Dan Brown Quotes
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151. “Their minds were too filled with chaos to see God.”

— Dan Brown

152. “Worshipping God is like mining for fossil fuels,” someone argued. “Plenty of smart people know it is shortsighted, and yet they have too much invested to stop!”

— Dan Brown

153. “Gods have no gender.”

— Dan Brown

154. “This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.”

— Dan Brown

155. “To permit ignorance is to empower it.”

— Dan Brown

156. “As strange as this may sound, I very seldom read fiction. Because my novels require so much research, almost everything I read is non – fiction – histories, biographies, translations of ancient texts...”

— Dan Brown

157. “Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.”

— Dan Brown

158. “Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”

— Dan Brown

159. “From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to American politics – the name Jesus had been hijacked as an ally in all kinds of power struggles.”

— Dan Brown

160. “To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.”

— Dan Brown

161. “Love is not a finite emotion. We don’t have only so much to share. Our hearts create love as we need it.”

— Dan Brown

162. “The Secret is how to die. Since the beginning of time, the secret has always been how to die.”

— Dan Brown

163. “Any man can stay sober in a desert, he mused, but only the loyal can sit in an oasis and refuse to part his lips.”

— Dan Brown

164. “In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?”

— Dan Brown

165. “Iactura paucourm serva multos.”

— Dan Brown

166. “I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight...”

— Dan Brown

167. “Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”

— Dan Brown

168. “Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed.”

— Dan Brown

169. “Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.”

— Dan Brown

170. “Madness breeds madness.”

— Dan Brown

171. “Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey’s ticking.”

— Dan Brown

172. “Fate had cruel timing.”

— Dan Brown

173. “Tempat tergelap di neraka dicadangkan untuk mereka yang tetap bersikap netral disaat krisis moral.”

— Dan Brown

174. “Dialogue is always more important than consensus.”

— Dan Brown

175. “Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world for both.”

— Dan Brown

176. “Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”

— Dan Brown

177. “Symbols carry different meanings in different settings. – Robert Langdon.”

— Dan Brown

178. “Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.”

— Dan Brown

179. “Modern polarity is nothing but the ‘dual world’ described by Krishna here in the Bhagavad Gita over two thousand years ago.”

— Dan Brown

180. “There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces.”

— Dan Brown

181. “To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our schools and churches teach outright untruths to our children.”

— Dan Brown

182. “Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.”

— Dan Brown

183. “The chalice,” he said, “resembles a cup or vessel, and more important, it resembles the shape of a woman’s womb. This symbol communicates femininity, womanhood, and fertility.”

— Dan Brown

184. “Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.”

— Dan Brown

185. “One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.”

— Dan Brown

186. “As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope’s toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope’s toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.”

— Dan Brown

187. “To efficiently create chaos, Langdon realized, requires some order.”

— Dan Brown

188. “This icon is formally known as the blade, and it represents aggression and manhood. In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank.” “Indeed.” Teabing grinned. “The more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys.”

— Dan Brown

189. “Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female. And that, my friends, is Da Vinci’s little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa’s knowing smile.”

— Dan Brown

190. “Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle – like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.”

— Dan Brown

191. “May our philosophies keep pace with our technologies. May our compassion keep pace with our powers. And may love, not fear, be the engine of change.”

— Dan Brown

192. “Newton’s Third Law of Child Rearing: For every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy.”

— Dan Brown

193. “Vittoria slipped off her robe. ‘You’ve never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?”

— Dan Brown

194. “Love is not a finite emotion. We don’t have only so much to share.”

— Dan Brown

195. “Antimatter is the most powerful energy source known to man. It.”

— Dan Brown

196. “I am a good person because I am a good person! God has nothing to do with it!”

— Dan Brown

197. “Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. I see in your eyes that you have your mother’s generous soul. Your conscience will be your guide. When life is dark, let your heart show you the way.”

— Dan Brown

198. “Well-directed thought is a learned skill. To manifest an intention requires laserlike focus, full sensory visualization, and a profound belief.”

— Dan Brown

199. “The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.”

— Dan Brown

200. “As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!”

— Dan Brown