
“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)
“In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In terra di ciechi chi vi ha un occhio è signore.
Act III, scene ix
The Mandrake (1524)
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.”
12 December 2010
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2010
“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
Source: The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“I worry I don’t see things the way everyone else does.”
On her anxieties as a writer (as quoted in “I Have Lost All Interest in Having a Self” https://slate.com/culture/2019/09/coventry-rachel-cusk-review.html) (2019 Sep 19)
“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
Adagia (first published 1500, with numerous expanded editions through 1536), III, IV, 96
Also in the same passage of the Adagia is a variant: Inter caecos regnat strabus (Among the blind, the squinter rules).
BBC News February 9, 2008 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7873624.stm
“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)