Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Manly P. Hall: If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.”

— Dan Brown

302. “Langdon always ended this lecture with a reminder that Arab culture had also given mankind the word al-kuhl – the favorite beverage of Harvard freshmen – known as alcohol.”

— Dan Brown

303. “Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. – Buddha.”

— Dan Brown

304. “To demolish this basilica,” the king said, ” is to pretend our history never happened – an easy way to allow ourselves to move happily forward, telling ourselves that another ‘Franco’ could never happen. But of course it could happen, and it will happen if we are not vigilant. – Father of Prince Julian.”

— Dan Brown

305. “Sin-cere. Since the days of Michelangelo, sculptors had been hiding the flaws in their work by smearing hot wax into the cracks and then dabbing the wax with stone dust. The method was considered cheating, and therefore, any sculpture “without wax” – literally sine cera – was considered a “sincere” piece of art. The phrase stuck. To this day we still sign our letters “sincerely” as a promise that we have written “without wax” and that our words are true.”

— Dan Brown

306. “Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.”

— Dan Brown

307. “The Pentacle – The ancients envisioned their world in two halves – masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.”

— Dan Brown

308. “Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of an justified religious beliefs. – Sam Harris.”

— Dan Brown

309. “But faith,” Edmond declared, “by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that is unseeable and indefinable, accepting as fact something for which there exists no empirical evidence.”

— Dan Brown

310. “When life is dark, let your heart show you the way.”

— Dan Brown

311. “Well, the meek were supposed to inherit the earth, but instead it has gone to the young – the technically inclined, those who stare into video screens rather than into their own souls.”

— Dan Brown

312. “Politics is a desperate business.”

— Dan Brown

313. “I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I’m not happy with.”

— Dan Brown

314. “We’ve been reading the Bible too literally. We learn that God created us in his image, but it’s not our physical bodies that resemble God, it’s our minds.”

— Dan Brown

315. “We all seek God in different ways. What are you afraid of? That God will show himself somewhere other than inside these walls? That people will find him in their own lives and leave your antiquated rituals behind? Religions evolve! The mind finds answers, the heart grapples with new truths.”

— Dan Brown

316. “Having faith requires leaps of faith, cerebral acceptance of miracles – immaculate conceptions and divine interventions. And then there are the codes of conduct. The Bible, the Koran, Buddhist scripture... they all carry similar requirements – and similar penalties. They claim that if I don’t live by a specific code I will go to hell. I can’t imagine a God who would rule that way.”

— Dan Brown

317. “I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the eighteenth-century composer who, upon going deaf, discovered he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone.”

— Dan Brown

318. “I’m a fan of the truth... even if it’s painfully hard to accept.”

— Dan Brown

319. “Venus and her pentacle became symbols of perfection, beauty, and the cyclic qualities of sexual love. As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her four-year cycle to organize their Olympiads.”

— Dan Brown

320. “Nuclear had proliferated before it was safe, and there were accidents. Solar had proliferated before it was efficient, and people lost money. Both technologies got bad reputations and withered on the vine.”

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321. “Uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.”

— Dan Brown

322. “It’s not about what you tell the reader, it’s about what you conceal.”

— Dan Brown

323. “Kohler shrugged. “Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains.”

— Dan Brown

324. “There is a fossil in this meteorite! Not just a speck of bacteria or microbes, but an advanced life-form! Proof of life elsewhere in the universe!”

— Dan Brown

325. “Entropy is just a fancy way of saying: things fall apart.”

— Dan Brown

326. “But faith by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that unseeable and indefinable, accepting something of which there exists no empirical evidence. And so, understandably, we all end up placing our faith in different things because if there is no universal truth. – Edmond Kirsch.”

— Dan Brown

327. “The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction.”

— Dan Brown

328. “Your victory has been inevitable. Never before has it been as obvious as it is at this moment. Science is the new God.” What.”

— Dan Brown

329. “The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change.”

— Dan Brown

330. “You should not have run.”

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331. “When it comes to passion, I’m not sure you have any choice but to follow.”

— Dan Brown

332. “Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.”

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333. “Absolution is the only escape. You must find a way to forgive the people who did this, or your rage will consume you whole.”

— Dan Brown

334. “We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it’s been turned upside down, and nothing is quite as we imagined. But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear. I urge you to place your faith in the human capacity for creativity and love, because these two forces, when combined, possess the power to illuminate any darkness.”

— Dan Brown

335. “Religion has always persecuted science.”

— Dan Brown

336. “Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.”

— Dan Brown

337. “Spiritual inquiry has always been the realm of religion, which encourages us to have a blind faith in its teachings, even when they make little logical sense. – Edmond Kirsch.”

— Dan Brown

338. “Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest... They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed to utterly erode everything that had once been so beautiful about Jesus.”

— Dan Brown

339. “Robert Langdon stood frozen in the doorway of the National Statuary Hall and studied the startling scene before him.”

— Dan Brown

340. “This life is what I always wanted. I had a vision of our happiness.”

— Dan Brown

341. “Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.”

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342. “Where do we come from? What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life and the universe?”

— Dan Brown

343. “Robert,” Ambra whispered, “just remember the wise words of Disney’s Princess Elsa.” Langdon turned. “I’m sorry?” Ambra smiled softly. “Let it go.”

— Dan Brown

344. “Silas knew the stakes were incalculable, and yet what the Teacher was now commanding seemed impossible.”

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345. “Hundreds of feet below, the cobblestone piazza beckons like a tranquil oasis. How.”

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346. “Gaea. The planet is an organism. All of us are cells with different purposes. And yet we are intertwined. Serving each other. Serving the whole.”

— Dan Brown

347. “I learned early on not to listen to either critique – the people who love you or the people who don’t like you.”

— Dan Brown

348. “I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.”

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349. “I have witnessed people transform cancer cells into healthy cells simply by thinking about them. I have witnessed human minds affecting the physical world in myriad ways. And once you see that happen... once this becomes a part of your reality, then some of the miracles you read about become simply a matter of degree.”

— Dan Brown

350. “Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.”

— Dan Brown