Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end.”

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202. “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.”

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

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204. “Love is a private thing. The world does not need to know.”

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205. “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.”

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

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

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208. “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.”

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

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210. “Human beings are evolving into something different,” he declared. “We are becoming a hybrid species – a fusion of biology and technology.”

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211. “I reject monogamy as an affront to evolution.”

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212. “Now the student has surpassed his teacher, Langdon thought. By several light-years.”

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213. “Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?”

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214. “Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all Gods will be proven to be false idols.”

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215. “How about Panspermia?” Winston asked. “The notion that life on earth was seeded from another planet by a meteor or cosmic dust? Panspermia is considered a scientifically valid possibility to explain the existence of life on earth.”

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

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217. “It seemed Eve’s bite from the apple of knowledge was a debt women were doomed to pay for eternity.”

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218. “It’s a Latin mnemonic invented by the Vatican in the Middle Ages to remind Christians of the Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.”

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219. “Despite for a monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches – smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.”

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220. “Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia.”

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221. “Of course you can’t stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you’re giving it the wrong fuel.”

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222. “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.”

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223. “Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.”

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224. “Dante’s poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.”

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225. “Tuileries Gardens – Paris’s own version of Central Park.”

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

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227. “Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. – Dr. Sienna Brooks.”

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228. “The human spirit craves for mastery over its carnal shell.”

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229. “Sweet science will banish the dark religions... so that enlightened religions can flourish.”

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230. “Culling is God’s Natural Order. Ask yourself, What followed the Black Death? We all know the answer. The Renaissance. Rebirth.”

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231. “In Christianity, the number eight represented rebirth and re-creation. The octagon served as a visual reminder of the six days of God’s creation of heaven and earth, the one day of Sabbath, and the eighth day, upon which Christians were “reborn” or “re-created” through baptism. Octagons had become a common shape for baptistries around the world.”

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232. “The art is in knowing how to ask.”

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233. “My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there is a divine force behind the universe, it is laughing hysterically at the religions we’ve created in an attempt to define it.”

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234. “When the ancients discovered ‘Phi’, they were certain they had stumbled across God’s building block for the world.”

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235. “Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.”

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236. “When you’re a black woman”, her mother said, “ain’t no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let ’em wonder what secret’s making you laugh.”

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237. “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? – NIETZSCHE.”

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238. “A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature – the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, et cetera.” “Okay. And codes?” “Codes are special,” Langdon said, his tone rising. “Codes, by definition, must carry information. They must do more than simply form a pattern – codes must transmit data and convey meaning.”

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239. “I’ve heard of denial,” Langdon quipped blithely, “but I don’t think it exists.”

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240. “And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church attendance among the fearful.”

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241. “Churchill. Langdon needed a moment to realize she was referring to none other than Winston Churchill himself, the celebrated British statesman who, in addition to being a military hero, historian, orator, and Nobel Prize–winning author, was an artist of remarkable talent. Langdon now recalled Edmond quoting the British prime minister once in response to a comment someone made about religious people hating him: You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something!”

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242. “A noble quest, Kirsch thought, despite seeing it as an empty exercise – a meaningless search for random points of correspondence among a hodgepodge of ancient fictions, fables, and myths.”

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243. “Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas.”

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244. “Love is from another realm. We cannot manufacture it on demand. Nor can we subdue it when it appears. Love is not our choice to make.”

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245. “The world had gone mad, and in may parts of Europe, advertising your love of Jesus Christ was like painting a bull’s-eye on the roof of your car.”

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246. “Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are the laws of nature and balance. And if we look at the darkness growing in the world today, we have to realize that this means there is equal light growing.”

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247. “The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it.”

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248. “The male ego had spent two millennia running unchecked by its female counterpart. The Priory of Sion believed that it was this obliteration of the sacred feminine in modern life that had caused what the Hopi Native Americans called koyanisquatsi – “life out of balance” – an unstable situation marked by testosterone-fueled wars, a plethora of misogynistic societies, and a growing disrespect for Mother Earth.”

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249. “Anything is possible when people believe in a cause.”

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250. “There is your truth and there is my truth... as for the universal truth it does not exist.”

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