Impressive Sentences from The DaVinci Code

I have just finished watching The DaVinci Code film. In fact, I saw it once when it first came to theaters. However, at that time, I could not understand completely the movie since I could not follow throughout its subtitle. Even this time I still cannot since I have watched it in English without subtitle. :P

Anyway, there are sentences which I am impressed in the film. And, I just want to quote them here.

At the beginning, in the conference:
"Understanding our past determines actively our ability to understand the present."
"So how do we sift truth from belief?"
"How do we write our own histories, personally or culturally, and thereby define ourselves?
"How do we penetrate years, centuries of historical distortion to find original truth?

When they are examining The Last Supper picture:
"The mind sees what it chooses to see." (scotoma)

In an airplane:
"You and I Robert have observed history. Time has been our glass. We are in history now. Living it. Making it."

I myself really like these sentences because they reminds me to understand myself and our (Thai) history as we still do not really understand the truth (in my opinion). They also encourage me to define and make my present and our nation. This is because we see things as we want to see not what it actually occurs.