Quote by Larry Niven

“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”

— Anonymous

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or…

— Charles de Lint

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“His words sounded foolish to his own ears. He was not impressive. He was small like the world.”

— Anne Ursu

“He was altogether wretched. He hated the dark, and he hated the light more: he hated everything, and the Ring most of all.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London

“In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.”

— Eileen Chang

“the world was so big, so full of things I could master.”

— John Fante

“He is eternal discovery and eternal growth. The more we think that we understand Him, the more He reveals Himself as otherwise.”

— Leary Bonnett

“There had been something willed about it though, his ignorance. Or not willed, exactly: structured. He'd grown up in walled spaces, and then he…

— Margaret Atwood

“And then he bent his own neck and put the chain upon it, and at once his head was bowed to the ground with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien