1. “The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.”
2. “Sophie, 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.”
3. “Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessible. The problems arise when we begin to believe literally in our own metaphors.”
4. “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.”
5. “Napoleon once said, “What is history, but a fable agreed upon?” He smiled. “By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
6. “Originally, Tarot had been devised as a secret means to pass along ideologies banned by the Church. Now, Tarot’s mystical qualities were passed on by modern fortune-tellers.”
7. “Wisdom is in books,… quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.”
8. “Fortunately for you, we British judge man’s civility not by his compassion for his friends, but by his compassion for his enemies”
9. “We’re on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than a knight?”
10. “Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”
11. “gilded frame, the seventy-six-year-old man heaved the masterpiece toward himself until it tore from the wall and Saunière collapsed”
12. “When a question has no correct answer, there is only one honest response. The gray area between yes and no. Silence.”
13. “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.”
14. “Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.”
15. “In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?”
16. “as a classroom example of a basic”
17. “Can you keep secrets? Can you know a thing and never say it again?”
18. “As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!”
19. “Nothing in Christianity is original.”
20. “the pale hand of an enormous albino with long white hair.”
21. “A little faith can do wonders, a little faith.”
22. “Tuileries Gardens—Paris’s own version of Central Park.”
23. “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?”
24. “Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”
25. “Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.”
26. “What really matters is what you believe.”
27. “an overwhelming encounter.”
28. “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.” “Not the Son of God?” “Right,” Teabing said. “Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.”
29. “The blind see what they want to see.”
30. “Fugitives were predictable the first hour after escape. They always needed the same thing. Travel. Lodging. Cash. The Holy Trinity.”
31. “Today is today. But there are many tomorrows”
32. “Learning the truth has become my life’s love.”
33. “Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.”
34. “By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
35. “Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female. And that, my friends, is Da Vinci’s little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa’s knowing smile.”
36. “We fear what we do not understand…”
37. “So dark the con of man.”
38. “The quest for the Holy Grail is the quest to kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene. A journey to pray at the feet of the outcast one.”
39. “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.”
40. “This icon is formally known as the blade, and it represents aggression and manhood. In fact, this exact phallus symbol is still used today on modern military uniforms to denote rank.” “Indeed.” Teabing grinned. “The more penises you have, the higher your rank. Boys will be boys.”
41. “Symbols carry different meanings in different settings. – Robert Langdon”
42. “Life is filled with secrets. You can’t learn them all at once.”
43. “When the ancients discovered ‘Phi’, they were certain they had stumbled across God’s building block for the world.”
44. “Fache will do what no one else dares.”
45. “As if to proclaim his home a British Isle unto itself, Teabing had not only posted his signs in English, but he had installed his gate’s intercom entry system on the right-hand side of the truck—the passenger’s side everywhere in Europe except England.”
46. “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
47. “Misunderstanding breeds distrust,”
48. “Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift.”
49. “Robert? You wake me up and you charge me for it?”
50. “If you would be so kind,”
