Top 298 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Brown - Page 4

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

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.

A little faith can do wonders.

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

We are the masters of our own universe.

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 greatest story ever told is, in fact, the greatest story ever sold

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

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

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.

The blind see what they want to see.

...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

This prophecy of a coming enlightenment is echoed in virtually every faith and philosophical tradition on Earth. Hindus call it the Krita Age, astrologers call it the Age of Aquarius, the Jews describe the coming of the Messiah, theosophists call it the New Age, cosmologists call it Harmonic Convergence and predict the actual date of December 21, 2012.

FACT: The Priory of Sion - a European secret society founded in 1099 - is a real organization. In 1975 Paris's Bibliothque Nationale discovered parchments known as Les Dossiers Secrets, identifying numerous members of the Priory of Sion, including Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.

Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

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

Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!

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

Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. There is a difference. Holy scripture is stories...legends and history of man's quest to understand his own need for meaning. I am not asking you to pass judgment on literature. I am asking if you believe in God. When you lie out under the stars, do you sense the divine? Do you feel in your gut that you are staring up at the work of God's hands?

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

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.

Act first, explain later.

If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

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

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 human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?

Her eyes were olive green?incisive and clear.

Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.

Don't spend...but mend yourself.

When in doubt, just spit it out. That all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how itcomes out.

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.

PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Secrets interest us all, I think.

Darkness feeds on apathy.

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing.

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may.

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

Denial is a critical part of the human coping mechanism. Without it, we would all wake up terrified every morning about all the ways we could die. Instead, our minds block out our existential fears by focusing on stresses we can handle—like getting to work on time or paying our taxes.