On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Brent Eades wrote:
> > Does anyone remember who first said "In the land of the blind, the
> > one-eyed man is king"?
>
> [snip]
>
> So I dunno. I know I've seen a discussion of this quotation in print
> somewhere, sometime, but damned if I can remember any details...
> anyone else care to delve into the Web and see what they find?
I love a challenge. (Or: "anything to get out of doing actual work on a
Friday afternoon...")
One of the 5th season episodes of Babylon 5 was titled "In the Kingdom of
the Blind..." The "lurkers guide" notes for that episode attribute the
quote to Gerard Erasmus, and render the actual quote as "In the valley of
the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/097.html
Corroborating source, with the original latin(?) and a somewhat different
translation ("It is well known, that among the blind the one-eyed man is
king.") appears at
http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/~trichter/quote1.htm
and
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~rjs979/Quotes.html
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