“In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
Source: Gem of the Ocean
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“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 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).
“Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?”
Source: The Age of Uncertainty (1977), Chapter 6, p. 180
Clifford Geertz, Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology (1983) Basic Books, 2000, p. 58.
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.”
We are a little bit that way.
On India's performance amid the 2015 world economy slow down, as quoted in " India 'one-eyed' king in land of blind, says Rajan http://www.business-standard.com/article/finance/india-one-eyed-king-in-land-of-blind-says-rajan-116041600663_1.html", Business Standard (16 April 2016)
“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is lucky to escape with his life.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
“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