In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.
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Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (1983) [Basic Books, 2000, ISBN 0-465-04162-0], p. 58Clifford Geertz
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Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?
John Kenneth Galbraith
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.
Celia Green
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king, —
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn, — mud from a muddy spring, —
Rulers who neither see, nor feel, nor know,
But leech-like to their fainting country cling,
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.Percy Bysshe Shelley
I say, of the Congress, then, this — that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; — in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.
Sri Aurobindo
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in. (12 December 2010)
Caitlin R. Kiernan
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