Dan brown quotes

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

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

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.

Anyone who said power was not addictive had never really experienced it.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

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

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.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian angel who conquered your enemy in battle was perceived by your enemy as a demon destroyer.

She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

Time is a river, and books are boats.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

sometimes to find truth one must move mountains -Kohler

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

If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

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.

Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.

Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Pure energy is the father of creation.

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

Wealth is commonplace but wisdom is rare. I beg you to remember that wealth without wisdom can often end in disaster.

A little faith can do wonders.

Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

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.

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.

Secrets interest us all, I think.

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Religion has always persecuted science.

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

One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.

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

Learning the truth has become my life's love.

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.

Who will guard the guards ? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?

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

Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.

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

When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.

Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.

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 human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

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.

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

Madness breeds madness.

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

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

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

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.

Today is today. But there are many tomorrows

What really matters is what you believe.

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

Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.

…In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.

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.

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

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

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

genius accepts genius unconditionally

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

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

When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

Of course you can't stop. It is physically impossible for the human mind to think of nothing. The soul craves emotion, and it will continue to seek fuel for that emotion-good or bad. Your problem is that you're giving it the wrong fuel.

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

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.

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.

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

The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

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.

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.

the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!

There's just no substitute for the truth.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I believe that thinking about the problem … is your problem.

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

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

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

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

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

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

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 divine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

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

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

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

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

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

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

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

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?

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

Buddha had said: "Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom.

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.

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

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

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

Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!

In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

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

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

God's will is your deepest desires.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

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?

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

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

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