in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
- in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- Calque of Latin in regione caecorum rex est luscus, credited to Desiderius Erasmus’s Adagia (1500).
- A similar (yet much earlier, dating to the 4th or 5th century CE) turn of phrase, and Erasmus’ possible inspiration, appears in the Genesis Rabbah as בשוק סמייא צווחין לעווירא סגי נהור, meaning “In the street of the blind, the one-eyed man is called the Guiding Light”.