Dan Brown Quotes

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That is the definition of faith — acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

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

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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.

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

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

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The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

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Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.

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Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

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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.

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Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.

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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?

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It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

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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.

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Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes

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As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.

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

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We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

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

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I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have their moments.

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

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Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

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She saved my life...and I've ruined hers. They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

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I never imagined so many people would be enjoying it this much. I wrote this book essentially as a group of fictional characters exploring ideas that I found personally intriguing.

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Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

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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

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Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.

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

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But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

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Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith.

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