Quotes from The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown ·  509 pages

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“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“Google' is not a synonym for 'research'.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol



“Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.”
― Dan Brown, quote from 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, quote from The Lost Symbol


“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, quote from The Lost Symbol



“Time is a river...and books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“We all fear what we do not understand.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol



“Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always shared one thing. We all had the Creator. We used different names, different faces, and different prayers, but God was the universal constant for man. God was the symbol we all shared...the symbol of all the mysteries of life that we could not understand. The ancients had praised God as a symbol of our limitless human potential, but that ancient symbol had been lost over time. Until now.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol



“Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“TRUTH."
"Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the same story hiding inside, like a shared constant in our DNA. Maybe this collective TRUTH is responsible for the similarity in all of our stories."

‎"Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, mabe 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.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


“دعني أذكرك أنّه في فترة من الفترات , كانت ألمع العقول تعتبر الأرض مسطّحة , وتظن أنّها لو كانت مستديرة , لانسكبت البحار منها بالتأكيد . تخيّل كم كانوا ليسخروا منك لو أنّك أعلنت لهم أنّ الأرض ليست مستديرة فحسب , بل ثمّة قوة خفية تثبت كل شيء على سطحها !”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol



“Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand.”
― Dan Brown, quote from The Lost Symbol


About the author

Dan Brown
Born place: in Exeter, New Hampshire, The United States
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