For example, the man holding the ear said an elephant was like a fan. The blind men disagreed because they did not have the perspective to see where they all agreed. This parable is told in ...

The blind man who wrapped his arms around one stout leg screamed: “The elephant is a pillar like a tree-trunk.” For the second whose hand touched the trunk, “the elephant is like a thick ...

Learn More In the 1800s, John Godfrey Saxe wrote a poem about six blind men and an elephant based on an old Indian story. In an effort to discover what the elephant is, each man touches a ...