# Quote — Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

> In 1991, a document was locked in the safe of the director of the CIA. The document is still there today. Its cryptic text includes references to an ancient portal and an unknown location underground. The document also contains the phrase "It’s buried out there somewhere." All organizations in this novel exist, including the Freemasons, the Invisible College, the Office of Security, the SMSC, and the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
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> All rituals, science, artwork, and monuments in this novel are real.

- 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/in-1991-a-document

## 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)