The blind leading the blind
(based on Wikipedia)
This topic was represented in a painting by Pieter Bruegel based on the metaphor, The Blind Leading the 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.
Here are some phrases which represent the same idea:
Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind.
— Katha Upanishad
Sextus Empiricus (160 – 210CE) compares ignorant teachers and blind guides in Outlines of Scepticism:
"Nor does the non-expert teach the non-expert - any more than the blind can lead the blind."
It is interesting to see almost every day, situations which involve talkative people giving advise to others who consider them real geniuses. Perhaps those "geniuses" do not realise the big iresponsibility involved in such behavior of leading others to failure.
Painting by Pieter Bruegel 1568 Museum of Capodimonte.
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