# Quote — Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

> He gazed up through the rain-speckled glass ceiling at the mountainous form of the illuminated Capitol Dome overhead. It was an astonishing building. High atop her roof, almost three hundred feet in the air, the Statue of Freedom peered out into the misty darkness like a ghostly sentinel. Langdon always found it ironic that the workers who hoisted each piece of the nineteen-and-a-half-foot bronze statue to her perch were slaves — a Capitol secret that seldom made the syllabi of high school history classes.

- Author: [Dan Brown](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown.md)
- Book: [The Lost Symbol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-lost-symbol.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-lost-symbol/he-gazed-up-through

## More from this book

> Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh....And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-lost-symbol/dont-tell-anyone.md)

> Wealth is commonplace, but wisdom is rare.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-lost-symbol/wealth-is-commonplace.md)

> Sorry, but the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means "hidden" or "obscured." In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counterdoctrinal had to be kept hidden or "occult," and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything "occult" as evil, and the prejudice survived.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-lost-symbol/sorry-but-the.md)