众盲摸象 / 眾盲摸象
zhòng máng mō xiàng
Meaning
- multitude of blind people touch an elephant (idiom, from Nirvana sutra 大般涅盘经 dà bān Niè pán jīng) · figuratively unable to see the big picture
- to mistake the part for the whole
- unable to see the wood for the trees