Quotes by Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

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

“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, f...”

“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 f...”

“When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions.”

“The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherines mouth. Death, hewhispered to her, should be a quiet thing.”

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

“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 Maso...”

“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 j...”

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”

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

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

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

“Darkness feeds on apathy.”

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

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

“History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.”

“Since the beginning of time, the ignorant have always screamed the loudest...They celebrated their intolerance as proof of their convictions. Now after all these years, mankind had finally managed ...”

“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”

“The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction”

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