Dan Brown Quotes

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

genius accepts genius unconditionally

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

Madness breeds madness.

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

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles we herald as proof that science will bring us the answers. The ancient stories of immaculate conceptions, burning bushes, and parting seas are no longer relevant. God has become obsolete. Science has won the battle.

Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity

The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.

Man is simply playing by nature's rules,and art is man's attempt to imitate the beauty of the Creator's hand

Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.

Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

Nobody tells you what you can and can't do.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

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.

There comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense... a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve. - Bertrand Zobrist

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.

He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.

...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.

Religion has always persecuted science.

These books can't possibly compete with centuries of established history, especially when that history is endorsed by the ultimate bestseller of all time." Faukman's eyes went wide. "Don't tell me Harry Potter is actually about the Holy Grail." "I was referring to the Bible." Faukman cringed. "I knew that.

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.

Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.