Top 500 Dan Brown Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 8 of 10

351. “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

352. “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.”

— Dan Brown

353. “No more unnerving than Christians praying at the feet of a man nailed to a cross, or Hindus chanting in front of a four-armed elephant named Ganesh. Misunderstanding a culture’s symbols is a common root of prejudice.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

355. “Edmond found it deeply distressing,” Winston continued, “that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name. He believed that the universal truths of science could unite people – serving as a rallying point for future generations.”

— Dan Brown

356. “You should not have run.”

— Dan Brown

357. “Never interrogate before you disable your prey. A cornered enemy is a deadly enemy. The.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

360. “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

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

— Dan Brown

362. “Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! – LEONARDO DA VINCI.”

— Dan Brown

363. “I call it ‘Prayer for the Future’.” Edmond closed his eyes and spoke slowly, with startling assurance. “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

364. “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

365. “I have just removed a dozen of my best men from Vatican City on the eve of conclave. And I have done this to stake out the Pantheon based on the testimony of some American I have never met who has just interpreted a four hundred-year-old poem.”

— Dan Brown

366. “If you could throw a switch and randomly kill half the population on earth, would you do it?”

— Dan Brown

367. “The fog began to lift. Langdon felt a wave of relief. He hated hospitals, but they certainly beat aliens harvesting his testicles.”

— Dan Brown

368. “The Divine Comedy has nothing comedic about it. It’s called a comedy for another reason entirely. In the fourteenth century, Italian literature was, by requirement, divided into two categories: tragedy, representing high literature, was written in formal Italian; comedy, representing low literature, was written in the vernacular and geared toward the general population.”

— Dan Brown

369. “The truth will be twisted, Langdon knew. As it always is with the Masons.”

— Dan Brown

370. “An unbreakable code is a mathematical impossibility! He knows that!”

— Dan Brown

371. “The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.”

— Dan Brown

372. “Although many people erroneously interpreted apocalypse as a cataclysmic end of the world, the word literally signified an “unveiling,” predicted by the ancients to be that of great wisdom. The coming age of enlightenment.”

— Dan Brown

373. “I am a cosmic accident, and soon I will be dead.”

— Dan Brown

374. “The early Christians built a small shrine over his tomb. As Christianity spread, the shrine got bigger, layer upon layer, culminating in this collosal basilica. The entire Catholic faith had been built, quite literally, upon St Peter. The rock.”

— Dan Brown

375. “Penjelasan paling sederhana biasanya adalah penjelasan yang paling sulit dipahami.”

— Dan Brown

376. “If thoughts affect the world, then we must be very careful how we think. Destructive thoughts have influence, too, and we all know it’s far easier to destroy than it is to create.”

— Dan Brown

377. “At night, this is a heavier world.”

— Dan Brown

378. “I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they’re written from a skeptical point of view.”

— Dan Brown

379. “These two mysteries lie at the heart of the human experience. Where do we come from? Where are we going?”

— Dan Brown

380. “I give you my word that the next few years in human development will be shocking, disruptive, and wholly unimaginable!”

— Dan Brown

381. “Technology is linking us in ways we never imagined possible: Twitter, Google, Wikipedia, and others – all blend to create a web of interconnected minds.”

— Dan Brown

382. “Nature – in an effort to promote disorder – creates little pockets of order.”

— Dan Brown

383. “Well, this machine is no more me than your physical brain is you. Observing your own brain in a bowl, you would not say, ‘That object is me.’ We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.”

— Dan Brown

384. “The envious must climb with their eyes sewn shut so they cannot covet; the prideful must carry huge stones on their backs to bend them low in a humble manner; the gluttonous must climb without food or water, thereby suffering excruciating hunger; and the lustful must ascend through hot flames to purge themselves of passion’s heat.”

— Dan Brown

385. “A Pope usually worked fourteen-hour days, seven days a week, and died of exhaustion in an average of 6.3 years. The inside joke was that accepting the papacy was a cardinal’s ’fastest route to heaven.”

— Dan Brown

386. “You have won, but you haven’t won fairly.”

— Dan Brown

387. “Langdon decided not to say another word all evening. Sophie Neveu was clearly a hell of a lot smarter than he was.”

— Dan Brown

388. “A formal invitation had just been delivered. Someone was summoning Langdon to unlock a mystical portal that would unveil a world of ancient mysteries and hidden knowledge.”

— Dan Brown

389. “William Blake himself had written a similarly themed work titled All Religions Are One.”

— Dan Brown

390. “By way of fairy tales, this primeval battle of “good vs. evil” is ingrained into us as children through our stories: Merlin vs. Morgan le Fay, Saint George vs. the Dragon, David vs. Goliath, Snow White vs. the Witch, and even Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader.”

— Dan Brown

391. “It is God’s will!” someone was yelling, his voice echoing in the Sistine Chapel. “Who but the chosen one could have survived that diabolical explosion?” “Me,” a voice reverberated from the back of the chapel.”

— Dan Brown

392. “Genius accepts genius unconditionally. -Anonymous.”

— Dan Brown

393. “How I long for more time... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.”

— Dan Brown

394. “Edmond found it deeply distressing,” Winston continued, “that the human mind has the ability to elevate an obvious fiction to the status of a divine fact, and then feel emboldened to kill in its name.”

— Dan Brown

395. “The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observes it.” The.”

— Dan Brown

396. “Actually, Da Vinci was in tune with the balance between male and female. He believed that a human soul could not be enlightened unless it had both male and female elements.”

— Dan Brown

397. “By the end of the eleventh century,” Edmond said, “the greatest intellectual exploration and discovery on earth was taking place in and around Baghdad. Then, almost overnight, that changed. A brilliant scholar named Hamid al-Ghazali – now considered one of the most influential Muslims in history – wrote a series of persuasive texts questioning the logic of Plato and Aristotle and declaring mathematics to be ’the philosophy of the devil.”

— Dan Brown

398. “For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.”

— Dan Brown

399. “When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.”

— Dan Brown

400. “Female intuition was a potent instinct that she had learned to trust.”

— Dan Brown