Blind Leading Blind. The blind leading the blind is an idiom and a metaphor in the form of a parallel phrase, it is used to describe a situation where a person who knows nothing is getting advice and help from another person who knows almost nothing.
It can be traced back to the Upanishads, which were written between 800 BCE and 200 BCE. Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly, like blind led by the blind; Katha Upanishad A similar metaphor exists in the Buddhist Pali Canon, composed in North India, and preserved orally until it was committed to writing during the Fourth Buddhist Council in Sri Lanka in 29 BCE.
Suppose there were a row of blind men, each holding on to the one in front of him: the first one doesn't see, the middle one doesn't see, the last one doesn't see. In the same way, the statement of the Brahmans turns out to be a row of blind men, as it were: the first one doesn't see, the middle one doesn't see, the last one doesn't see; Canki Sutta The expression appears in Horace: Caecus caeco dux.
Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus The saying appears several times in the Bible with similar stories appearing in the gospels of Matthew, Luke and Thomas, possibly via the Q source. Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind
It can be traced back to the Upanishads, which were written between 800 BCE and 200 BCE. Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly, like blind led by the blind; Katha Upanishad A similar metaphor exists in the Buddhist Pali Canon, composed in North India, and preserved orally until it was committed to writing during the Fourth Buddhist Council in Sri Lanka in 29 BCE.
Suppose there were a row of blind men, each holding on to the one in front of him: the first one doesn't see, the middle one doesn't see, the last one doesn't see. In the same way, the statement of the Brahmans turns out to be a row of blind men, as it were: the first one doesn't see, the middle one doesn't see, the last one doesn't see; Canki Sutta The expression appears in Horace: Caecus caeco dux.
Horace was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus The saying appears several times in the Bible with similar stories appearing in the gospels of Matthew, Luke and Thomas, possibly via the Q source. Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind
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