Langdon knew she was right and reluctantly made his way around the balcony, hugging the wall as he went.
Langdon knew she was right and reluctantly made his way around the balcony, hugging the wall as he went.
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.
Language can be very adept at hiding the truth.
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.
Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.
We all fear what we do not understand.
Because most Christians want it both ways. They want to be able to proudly declare they are believers in the Bible and yet simply ignore those parts they find too difficult or too inconvenient to believe.
One final bit of advice. The next time a senior administrator of the CIA tells you she has a national-security crisis ... Leave the bullshit in Cambridge.
Wide acceptance of an idea is not proof of its validity.
Book publishing would be so much easier without the authors.
Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.
You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.
Chaos was the natural law of the universe. Indifference was the engine of entropy. Man's apathy was the fertile ground in which the dark spirits tended their seeds.
Perceptions of the modern masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up... all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world. the truth, no doubt, was somewhere in the middle.
Despite Langdon's six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.
Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell
Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.
Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.
Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.
The coyly nicknamed explosive Key4 had been developed by Special Forces specifically for opening locked doors with minimal collateral damage. Consisting primarily of cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine with a diethylhexyl plasticizer, it was essentially a piece of C-4 rolled into paper-thin sheets for insertion into doorjambs. In the case of the library's reading room, the explosive had worked perfectly.
God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.
The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.
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.
The truth, however, was stranger still.
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
This is systems security for the Central Intelligence Agency. We would like to know why you are attempting to hack one of our classified databases.
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.
Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.
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