An idea from The Republic

Philosophers look useless, and Socrates explains why with a ship. The captain is strong but half-deaf and short-sighted. Sailors who never learned to steer fight over the wheel, drug him, and take over. The one who studies the sky, stars and winds they dismiss as a star-gazer.

From The Republic by Plato

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