Top 500 Dan Brown Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “We’re on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than a knight?”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

404. “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

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

408. “Righteousness exists in many forms.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

410. “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.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

412. “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

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

— Dan Brown

414. “But most important... what kind of father can look his own son in the eyes... even after all these years... and not even recognize him!”

— Dan Brown

415. “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

416. “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

417. “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

418. “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

419. “Hell, no. A church is the one thing we don’t have. Physics is the religion around here. Use the Lord’s name in vain all you like,′ he laughed, ’just don’t slander any quarks or mesons.”

— Dan Brown

420. “Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

423. “When we forgive evil in the world, we are giving evil permission to grow and spread.”

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

430. “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

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

— Dan Brown

432. “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

433. “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

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

— Dan Brown

435. “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

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

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

— Dan Brown

439. “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

440. “Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.”

— Dan Brown

441. “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

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

— Dan Brown

443. “What had once been life’s quiet moments of solitary reflection – a few minutes alone on a bus, or walking to work, or waiting for an appointment – now felt unbearable, and people impulsively reached for their phones, their earbuds, and their games, unable to fight the addictive pull of technology.”

— Dan Brown

444. “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

445. “Right guy, wrong timing.”

— Dan Brown

446. “Something was very, very wrong.”

— Dan Brown

447. “Sophie stopped the taxi at an imposing gate that blocked the bank’s driveway – a cement-lined ramp that descended beneath the building. A video camera overhead was aimed directly at them, and Langdon had the feeling that this camera, unlike those at the Louvre, was authentic. Sophie rolled down the window and surveyed the electronic podium on the driver’s side. An LCD screen provided directions in seven languages. Topping the list was English.”

— Dan Brown

448. “Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.”

— Dan Brown

449. “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

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

— Dan Brown