Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.”

— Dan Brown

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

155. “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

156. “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

157. “Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

159. “I’ve been through a lot. I’ve thought a lot about life, and I’ve spent a lot of time studying history and science.”

— Dan Brown

160. “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

161. “The price of greatness... is responsibility – Winston Churchill.”

— Dan Brown

162. “What is our origin? What is our destiny?”

— Dan Brown

163. “Newton’s third life childrearing colin for every lunacy, there is an equal and opposite lunacy. – Edmond Kirsch.”

— Dan Brown

164. “Cancer is nothing more than a healthy cell that starts replicating out of control.”

— Dan Brown

165. “Their minds were too filled with chaos to see God.”

— Dan Brown

166. “America’s forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.”

— Dan Brown

167. “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

168. “Gods have no gender.”

— Dan Brown

169. “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

170. “Never make a promise you cannot keep.”

— Dan Brown

171. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

174. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

180. “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

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

— Dan Brown

182. “Fate had cruel timing.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

185. “Madness breeds madness.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

190. “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

191. “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

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

— Dan Brown

193. “Sometimes you need to go up... to go down.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

196. “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

197. “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

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

— Dan Brown

199. “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

200. “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