The Story of the Blind Men and the Elephant

In front of the zoo, there were five blind men who often gathered to wait for visitors to have their fortunes told. One day, when business was slow, they began chatting with each other. Each of them complained that they had never seen an elephant and were curious about what it looked like. Just then, they overheard that an elephant was passing by. The five men pooled their money to pay the elephant keeper, asking him to stop the elephant so each man could touch it and learn what it was like.

- One man touched the elephant's trunk and said, "The elephant is like a snake, all twisty and squirmy."

- Another man touched the tusks and disagreed, saying, "No, no! The elephant is like a heavy beam."
- A third man touched the elephant's ear and said, "You're both wrong. The elephant is flat and broad like a winnowing basket."
- A fourth man touched the elephant's leg and said, "You're all mistaken! The elephant is like a sturdy pillar."
- The last man touched the elephant's tail and said, "You’re all wrong. The elephant is like a rough, blunt broomstick."

The five men argued for a long time, each stubbornly defending his own view. Their argument grew so heated that they began to fight, and in the end, one man had a bruised head and another had a cut on his forehead.

The moral of this story is that to truly understand something, one must look at it from all angles, not just from a single perspective.