The Da Vinci Code Quotes
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The Da Vinci Code Quotes
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“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“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?”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“What really matters is what you believe.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Life is filled with secrets. You can't learn them all at once.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response.
The gray area between yes and no.
Silence.”
― The Da Vinci Code
The gray area between yes and no.
Silence.”
― The Da Vinci Code
“Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school. Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.
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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
“Forgiveness is God's greatest gift”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Nothing in Christianity is original.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Learning the truth has become my life's love.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Today is today. But there are many tomorrows”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― 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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― 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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“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.”
― The Da Vinci Code
"Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our eyes.”
― The Da Vinci Code
“We fear what we do not understand...”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“اولئك الذين ينشدون الحقيقة هم اكثر من اصدقاء، انهم اخوة.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“أن الرجال قد يفعلون أي شيء لتجنب ما يخشونه أكثر مما قد يبذلونه للحصول على شيء يرغبون فيه.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code
“إن سوء الفهم يولّد الشك.”
― The Da Vinci Code
― The Da Vinci Code