In the parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant (see Sidebar), by John Godfrey Saxe, each of the 6 blind men from Indostan evaluated an elephant from his perspective. One perceived it as a wall ...

One day six blind men were talking together in the square in the centre of a small village in India. They heard a large animal enter the square and wondered what it could be. Of course, as they were ...

Once upon a time, six blind men lived in a village. They were named Frank, Harry, Seth, Chris, Mitt and Don. One day the folks in the village told them, "Yo, guys, look: There is an elephant ...

One of my favorites is the Indian parable of the elephant and the blind men. It runs roughly like this: six blind men were asked by the king to describe an elephant after being allowed to touch ...

In the ancient famous story or parable, which originated in the Indian sub-continent from where it has greatly spread to other parts of the world, six blind men go to ‘see’ an elephant.

According to Idries Shah, once upon a time, in a village, there were six blind men who had heard of an elephant but had never encountered one. Curious to understand what an elephant was like ...