"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Whether or not you believe in God, you must believe this: when we as a species abandon our trust in a power greater than us, we abandon our sense of accountability. Faiths … all faiths … are admonitions that there is something we cannot understand, something to which we are accountable. With faith we are accountable to each other, to ourselves, and to a higher truth. Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed. The church consists of a brotherhood of imperfect, simple souls wanting only to be a voice of compassion in a world spinning out of control."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Everyone loves a conspiracy."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Faith - Acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"don't tell me Harry Potter is really about the Holy Grail"
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past."
— Dan Brown (Deception Point)

"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?'"
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"“You are confused because the Bible describes God as an omnipotent and benevolent deity…Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.”
“I understand the concept. It’s just…there seems to be a contradiction.”
“Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man’s starvation, war, sickness…”
“Exactly!” Chartrand knew the camerlengo would understand. “Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and has the power to change our situation, He would prevent our pain, wouldn’t He?”
The Camerlengo frowned. “Would He?”
Chartrand felt uneasy. Had he overstepped his bounds? Was this one of those religious questions you just didn’t ask? “Well…if God loves us, and He can protect us, He would have to. It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.”
“Do you have children, Lieutenant?”
Chartrand flushed. “No, signore.”
“Imagine you had an eight-year-old son…would you love him?”
“Of course.”
“Would you let him skateboard?”
Chartrand did a double take. The camerlengo always seemed oddly “in touch” for a clergyman. “Yeah, I guess,” Chartrand said. “Sure, I’d let him skateboard, but I’d tell him to be careful.”
“So as this child’s father, you would give him some basic, good advice and then let him go off and make his own mistakes?”
“I wouldn’t run behind him and mollycoddle him if that’s what you mean.”
“But what if he fell and skinned his knee?”
“He would learn to be more careful.”
The camerlengo smiled. “So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child’s pain, you would choose to show your love by letting him learn his own lessons?”
“Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It’s how we learn.”
The camerlengo nodded. “Exactly.'"
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for the power that created us."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven…The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not fall magically from the clouds. Man created it as a historical record of tumultuous times, and it has evolved through countless translations, additions, and revisions. History has never had a definitive version of the book."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow."

-Sir Leigh Teabing"
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account."
— Dan Brown

"'Google' is not a synonym for 'research'."
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Every faith in the world is based on fabrication... Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school... Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that we have proof the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?'"
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"The media is the right arm of anarchy."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Nothing in Christianity is original."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer."
— Dan Brown (Digital Fortress)

"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."
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine"
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"'Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.'"
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"Seek the goodness, become the goodness.D"
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear?"
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Mr. Langdon all questions were once spiritual. Since the beginning of time spirituality and religion have been called on to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. The rising and setting of the sun was once attributed to Helios and a flaming chariot. Earthquakes and tidal waves were the wrath of Poseidon. Science has now proven those gods to be false idols. Soon all gods will be proven to be false idols. Science has now provided answers to almost every question man can ask. There are only a few questions left and they are the esoteric ones. Where do we come from What are we doing here? What is the meaning of life and the universe? "
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Great minds are always feared by lesser minds."
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base."
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought."
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"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? "
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"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."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"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."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Founded by President Truman at 12:01 A.M. on November 4, 1952, the NSA had been the most clandestine intelligence agency in the world for almost fifty years. The NSA's seven-page inception doctrine laid out a very concise agenda: to protect U.S. government communications and to intercept the communications of foreign powers.
"The roof of the NSA's main operations building was littered with over five hundred antennas, including two large radomes that looked like enormous golf balls. The building itself was mammoth--over two million square feet, twice the size of CIA headquarters. Inside were eight million feet of telephone wire and eighty thousand square feet of permanently sealed windows."
— Dan Brown

"Jabba resembled a giant tadpole, like the cinematic creature for whom he was nicknamed, the man was a hairless spheroid. As resident guardian angel of all NSA computer systems, Jabba marched from department to department, tweaking, soldering, and reaffirming his credo that prevention was the best medicine. No NSA computer had ever been infected under Jabba's reign; he intended to keep it that way."
— Dan Brown (Digital Fortress)

" 'Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret society, not a corporation, and not a religion, then what is it?'
'Well, if you were to ask a Mason, he would offer the following definition: Masonry is a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.'
'Sounds to me like a euphemism for "freaky cult." '
'Freaky, you say?'
'Hell yes!' the kid said, standing up. 'I heard what they do inside those secret buildings! Weird candlelight rituals with coffins, and nooses, and drinking wine out of skulls. Now that's freaky!'
Langdon scanned the class. 'Does that sound freaky to anyone else?'
'Yes!' they all chimed in.
Langdon feigned a sad sigh. 'Too bad. If that's too freaky for you, then I know you'll never want to join my cult.'
Silence settled over the room. The student from the Women's Center looked uneasy. 'You're in a cult?'
Langdon nodded and lowered his voice to a conspiratorial whisper. 'Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh.'
The class looked horrified.
Langdon shrugged. 'And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.'
The classroom remained silent.
Langdon winked. 'Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.' "
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?"
Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic"
-- Sir Leigh Teabing"
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

"Google is not a synonym for Research"
— Dan Brown

"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?"
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"faith does not protect you. medicine and airbags... those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. enlightenment. put your faith in something with tangible results. how long has it been since someone walked on water? modern miracles belong to science.. computers, vaccines, space stations... even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... in a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!
"
— Dan Brown (Angels & Demons)

"Her eyes were olive green--incisive and clear."
— Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code)

""Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows."
Angels and Demons p. 484"
— Dan Brown

"The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle and tried desperately to open each of the three giant doors.
The library's closed, lady.
But the woman didn't seem to care. She seized one of the heavy ring-shaped handles, heaved it backward, and let it fall with a loud crash against the door. Then she did it again. And again. And again.
Wow, the homeless man thought, she must really need a book."
— Dan Brown

"imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war "
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"Yo no he escrito un libro sobre verdades y mentiras. Simplemente, un libro que ha despertado la curiosidad de la gente en el pasado"
— Dan Brown

"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."
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)

"الخوف يقرّب الناس من الله"
— Dan Brown (ملائكة و شياطين)

"Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand."
— Dan Brown

"Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky."
— Dan Brown (The Lost Symbol)