Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “When life is dark, let your heart show you the way.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

353. “I believe life not only obeys the laws of physics, but that life began because of those laws.”

— Dan Brown

354. “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

355. “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

356. “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

357. “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

358. “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

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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.”

— Dan Brown

362. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

365. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

369. “Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.”

— Dan Brown

370. “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.”

— Dan Brown

371. “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

372. “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

373. “Capitalism is non-denominational.”

— Dan Brown

374. “Cathedral terminology was like stage directions – totally counterintuitive.”

— Dan Brown

375. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

378. “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.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

384. “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

385. “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.”

— Dan Brown

386. “On the back of the Trike, Langdon looked ahead and immediately shared her apprehension.”

— Dan Brown

387. “Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what Edmond had discovered. At first glance, the painting’s subject seemed far too primitive to hint at an advanced scientific discovery. Its broad uneven brushstrokes depicted a Tahitian jungle inhabited by an assortment of native Tahitians and animals.”

— Dan Brown

388. “There will be time to mourn, Langdon told himself, fighting back intense emotion. Now is the time for action.”

— Dan Brown

389. “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

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

— Dan Brown

391. “I’ve learned to expect the worst from people who hold power.”

— Dan Brown

392. “The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.”

— Dan Brown

393. “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

394. “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

395. “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.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

397. “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.”

— Dan Brown

398. “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.”

— Dan Brown

399. “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.”

— Dan Brown

400. “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