Six blind men and the elephant

Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the
> villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today." They
> had no idea what an elephant is. They decided, "Even though we would not be
> able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway." All of them went where the
> elephant was. Everyone of them touched the elephant.
>
> "Hey, the elephant is a pillar," said the 1st man who touched its leg.
>
> "Oh, no! it is like a rope," said the 2nd man who touched the tail.
>
> "Oh, no! it is like a thick branch of a tree," said the 3rd man who
> touched the trunk.
>
> "It is like a big hand fan" said the 4th man who touched the ear of the
> elephant.
>
> "It is like a huge wall," said the 5th man who touched the belly of the
> elephant.
>
> "It is like a solid pipe," Said the 6th man who touched the tusk of the
> elephant.
>
> They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that
> he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated.
>
> A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them,
> "What is the matter?" They said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is
> like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The
> wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every
> one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the
> different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those
> features what you all said."
>
> "Oh!" everyone said. There was no more fight.
>
> They felt happy that they were all right.
>
> The moral of the story is that there may be some truth to what someone
> says. Sometimes we can see that truth and sometimes not because they may
> have a different perspective with which we may not agree. So, rather than
> arguing like the blind men, we should say, "Maybe you have your reasons."
>
> This way we don't get in arguments. Truth can be stated in different ways.
> This story teaches us to be tolerant towards others for their viewpoints.
> This allows us to live in harmony with the people of different thinking.