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On Thu, 24 May 2018 20:38:26 -0700, Dan'l Miller wrote:

> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Blind_men_and_an_elephant#John_Godfrey_Saxe
> 
> especially The Moral in the final stanza:
> https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_poems_of_John_Godfrey_Saxe/
The_Blind_Men_and_the_Elephant
> 
> The Moral:
> 
> So, oft in theologic wars The disputants, I ween,
> Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean,
> And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!

Or the original (or at least, considerably older) Tittha Sutta.

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/ud/ud.6.04.irel.html

-- Brian