Top 450 Dan Brown Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “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

402. “It’s called Head On,” Winston offered, unprompted. “Ninety-nine wolves racing blindly into a wall to symbolize a herd mentality, a lack of courage in diverging from the norm.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

404. “She was being buffeted by the air currents but grinned and flashed Langdon the thumbs-up sign. Langdon smiled weakly and returned the gesture, wondering if she knew it was the ancient phallic symbol for masculine virility.”

— Dan Brown

405. “If we all worshipped gravity, there would be no disagreements over which way it pulled.”

— Dan Brown

406. “Michael,” she said, her voice raspy. “It’s time to let go.” “I can’t.” Tolland’s eyes welled. “You’re a survivor,” Celia said. “You have to be. Promise me you’ll find another love.” “I’ll never want another.” Tolland meant it. “You’ll have.”

— Dan Brown

407. “La chiave,” the raspy voice replied. “The password.”

— Dan Brown

408. “Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage... an assimilated historical record of man’s quest to understand the divine.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

410. “Around their necks hung ceremonial jewels that glistened like.”

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411. “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

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

— Dan Brown

413. “Consider this!” Edmond declared. “It took early humans over a million years to progress from discovering fire to inventing the wheel. Then it took only a few thousand years to invent the printing press. Then it took only a couple hundred years to build a telescope. In the centuries that followed, in ever-shortening spans, we bounded from the steam engine, to gas-powered automobiles, to the Space Shuttle! And then, it took only two decades for us to start modifying our own DNA!”

— Dan Brown

414. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

418. “The power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.”

— Dan Brown

419. “When a computer creates art, who is the artist – the computer or the programmer? At MIT, a recent exhibit of highly accomplished algorithmic art had put an awkward spin on the Harvard humanities course: Is Art What Makes Us Human?”

— Dan Brown

420. “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

421. “In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?” Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. “Surely such a travesty has never occurred.”

— Dan Brown

422. “She tried to make friends, but her peers immersed themselves in frivolities that held no interest to her. She tried to respect her elders, but most adults seemed like nothing more than aging children, lacking.”

— Dan Brown

423. “Righteousness exists in many forms.”

— Dan Brown

424. “For years I’ve studied the ancients’ claims of man’s awesome mental power, and now science is showing us that accessing that power is an actual physical process. Our brains, if used correctly, can call forth powers that are quite literally superhuman.”

— Dan Brown

425. “Langdon held her tighter. “You start small. You take that first tiny step. you trust me.”

— Dan Brown

426. “I believe future generations will ask themselves how a technologically advanced species like ours could possibly believe most of what our modern religions teach us.”

— Dan Brown

427. “Something was very, very wrong.”

— Dan Brown

428. “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

429. “Kirsch smiled politely. The word “hip” went out of style decades ago.”

— Dan Brown

430. “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

431. “We are the sum of the interactions taking place within the mechanism.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

433. “Norah declared.”

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434. “Every great philosophical shift in history began with a single bold idea.”

— Dan Brown

435. “A focused thought could affect literally anything.”

— Dan Brown

436. “New World Order,” Langdon repeated, “based on scientific enlightenment. They called it their Luciferian Doctrine.”

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437. “Everything decayed, the perfectly ordered crystal eventually turned into random particles of dust.”

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438. “A little faith can do wonders, a little faith.”

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439. “Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures. Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always helps inspire benevolent behavior.”

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440. “Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model – the belief that the planets revolve around the sun – which ignited a scientific revolution in the 1500s that entirely obliterated the Church’s long-held teaching that mankind occupied the center of God’s universe. His discovery was condemned by the Church for three centuries, but the damage had been.”

— Dan Brown

441. “It came from the world’s first computer – the Mark 1 – a room-size maze of electromechanical circuits built in 1944 in a lab at Harvard University. The computer developed a glitch one day, and no one was able to locate the cause. After hours of searching, a lab assistant finally spotted the problem. It seemed a moth had landed on one of the computer’s circuit boards and shorted it out. From that moment on, computer glitches were referred to as bugs.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

443. “Robert wondered if any of Harvard’s revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.”

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444. “Right guy, wrong timing.”

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445. “I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.”

— Dan Brown

446. “Concealed within those pages, there hides a wondrous secret.”

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447. “Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.”

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448. “Langdon felt a chill. This killer is here for both of us.”

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449. “Fighting communicable disease was often like fighting a forest fire: sometimes you had to drop back and surrender a battle in hopes of winning the war.”

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450. “What truth do these people possess? What proof, damn it! A book of ancient fables? Promises of miracles to come?”

— Dan Brown