A Quote by George Herbert

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

George Herbert

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Blind King Kingdom Men

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George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

What's the condition of America like, spiritually, tonight? Zero. Why? Because we've got blind men coming out of seminaries. Men there don't teach them; they don't hear a word about Hell. They're blind themselves, and as blind men, they lead the blind and they go to Hell.

Leonard Ravenhill

In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Efren Ramirez

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Ken Harrelson

In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king

Michael Grant

In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

Who is king in the world of the blind when there isn't even a one eyed man?

John Kenneth Galbraith

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.

Laurence J. Peter

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

Michael Grant

I mean, truly, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, and if you can't spot that CM Punk is magic from the moment he walks in the door, then you're reading a playbook from an antiquated writer.

Paul Heyman

He was born a King. The wise men came from the East and asked, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews?' (Matthew 2:2). He died a King. In Greek, in Latin, and in Hebrew the description was written above His cross, 'This is Jesus, The King' (Matthew 27:37)

W. A. Criswell

The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

Angela Carter

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

Kurt Vonnegut

I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed.