Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “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.”

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

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353. “No good deed goes unpunished.’ Langdon.”

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354. “As the old adage goes: ‘Men plan, and God laughs.”

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

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356. “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.”

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357. “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.”

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

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

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360. “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.”

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361. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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366. “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.”

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367. “If we don’t embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he’s afraid to start a fire.”

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

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

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370. “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.”

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371. “Show me proof there is a God, you say. I say use your telescopes to look to the heavens, and tell me how there could not be s God!”

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372. “Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, he turned his eyes one last time to the heavens. Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”

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

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374. “However, when they try to look back to the instant when the Big Bang occurred – where T equals zero – the mathematics all goes mad, describing what seems to be a mystical speck of infinite heat and infinite density.”

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375. “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.”

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376. “He had also forgotten that iron brands, just like rubber stamps, never looked like their imprints. They were in reverse. Langdon had been looking at the brand’s negative.”

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377. “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.”

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378. “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.”

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

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380. “It’s prophetic, really. Today, man’s most advanced inventions are being used to study man’s most ancient ideas. The science of Noetics may be new, but it’s actually the oldest science on earth – the study of human thought.” She turned to him now, her eyes filled with wonder. “And we’re learning that the ancients actually understood thought more profoundly than we do today.”

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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.”

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382. “We’re on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than a knight?”

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

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384. “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.”

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

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386. “Religious communities cooperate better than nonreligious communities and therefore flourish more readily. This is a scientific fact!”

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387. “Capitalism is non-denominational.”

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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.”

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389. “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.”

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390. “The early Greeks had to look back centuries to study ancient culture, but we need look back only a single generation to find those who lived without the technologies we take for granted today.”

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

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392. “He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.”

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393. “As you may know, when someone endures a horrific event like a car accident or a sexual assault, the long-term memories can be permanently debilitating.”

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394. “You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.”

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395. “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.”

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396. “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.”

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397. “I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.”

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

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399. “We evolved from apes and we’re going extinct.”

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400. “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.”

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