# Quote — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair

> The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me—and to me it seems chash, meaning correct—that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.

- Author: [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md)
- Book: [The Dragonbone Chair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair.md)
- Page: 266
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tad_Williams#The_Dragonbone_Chair_(1988)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/the-wise-man

## More from this book

> He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/he-who-is-certain.md)

> “Is this being in love?” he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung—this was more irritating than uplifting.

p. 500 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/is-this-being.md)

> “Now, boy, now...” he said bewilderedly, “what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.”

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/now-boy-now.md)