The Lost Symbol

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”

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

“Darkness feeds on apathy.”

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

“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 i...”

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

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

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

“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 ca...”

“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.”

“The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.”