# A Wizard of Earthsea ## Metadata - Author: [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] - Full Title: A Wizard of Earthsea - Category: #books ## Highlights “You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do ([Location 958](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B008T9L6AM&location=958))