Top 70 Quotes About Seeing And Believing
#1. He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it.
Leo Tolstoy
#3. He suffered from an unlucky faculty - common to many men, especially Russians - the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a serious part in it.
Leo Tolstoy
#4. My work is largely concerned
with relations between
seeing and knowing,
seeing and saying,
seeing and believing.
Jasper Johns
#5. The only way to love a person is ... by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.
Brenda Ueland
#6. The world says, 'Seeing is believing.' Faith says, 'Believing is seeing.
Paul Silway
#7. You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.
Brett Hoebel
#8. Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.
Tom Hanks
#10. Amazing things happen when we put our minds to it. There is a saying that seeing is believing. But believing is seeing, as well. And touching. And hearing. Connecting.
Ridley Pearson
#12. If 'seeing is believing' what happened to taste, touch, sound and smell ? Did our creator really intend to favour sight over the other senses ? I don't believe so.
Alex Morritt
#13. You can see. Seeing is believing. Seeing is the gift that keeps giving. It's much more engaging than being seen.
Diane Keaton
#14. People hear what we say but they see what we do. And seeing is believing.
Al Lucia
#15. Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.
Terrence E. Deal
#17. He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
George Santayana
#18. Have you really seen God?" he said, placing his hand on the young man's shoulder and fixing him with his protuberant eyes.
Believing that the sound he could hear of a thousand voices singing was no longer the wind, Averill said, "I am seeing him now.
Frederick Buechner
#19. It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.
Walpola Rahula
#20. Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
Lewis H. Lapham
#21. One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays - Seeing is believing all the world over.
Plautus
#22. Instead of believing the world is plotting to do you harm, choose to believe the world is plotting to do you good. Instead of seeing every difficult challenging event as a negative, see it for what it could be - something that is meant to enrich you, empower you, or advance your causes.
W. Clement Stone
#23. The phrase "Blessed are those who have not seen but have believed" floated through his head. It was maybe not the believing that was the blessing; it was the not having to look. Seeing, sometimes, was bloody awful.
Diana Gabaldon
#24. On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational
to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of.
Martin Amis
#25. Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
Carol Plum-Ucci
#26. There are two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of wheel fortune, when you least expected it.
Paulo Coelho
#27. Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#28. Seeing is believing, or so the old saying goes. One of the strongest encouragements for trusting God today is seeing God's power in the past.
Anonymous
#29. Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
Scott Dikkers
#30. There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#31. Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
Philip Roth
#32. Here's how to create an inspired vision for your life: Change the scope of your thinking from seeing is believing to believing is seeing.
DeWayne Owens
#34. Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.
Megan Chance
#35. How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?
John Paul Caponigro
#36. Reality was what went on inside people's heads. And in front of him were hundreds of people really believing what they were seeing ...
Terry Pratchett
#37. Perception is a clash of mind and eye, the eye believing what it sees, the mind seeing what it believes.
Robert Breault
#38. They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
Errol Morris
#39. For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing.
George Will
#40. Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
James Stephens
#41. Believing is nothing other than, in the darkness of the world, touching the hand of God, and in this way, in silence, hearing the Word, seeing love.
Pope Benedict XVI
#42. Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.
Terry Pratchett
#43. Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.
Michael Shermer
#44. When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.
Robert Anthony
#48. Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.
Luis Palau
#49. The reality is that whatever you are looking for is, at the same time, looking for you. It all starts with believing before seeing.
John Frederick Demartini
#50. Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.
Thomas Clifford Allbutt
#51. It's often been said that "seeing is believing", but in many cases, the reverse is also true. Believing results in seeing.
Donald L. Hicks
#52. Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.
Stacy London
#54. Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees - or seeing what he believes. Either way.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.
Gertrude Stein
#56. You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
Denis Waitley
#57. Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
William Griffith Wilson
#58. For some people, seeing is believing.
For others, believing is seeing.
Jeffrey A. White
#59. Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
Oswald Chambers
#60. You wanted hearts and flowers," he murmurs.
I blink at him, not quite believing what I'm seeing.
"You have my heart." And he waves toward the room.
"And here are the flowers," I whisper, completing his sentence. "Christian, it's lovely.
E.L. James
#61. Seeing all life
in perfect symmetry.
Perceiving each day
with righteous clarity.
Living each moment
in purposed reality.
Believing each day
is the start of eternity.
S. Tarr
#62. The trouble with believing conspiracies is you start seeing them everywhere, right? And everything becomes a part of them. But, of course, the trouble with not believing them is becoming a dupe.
J. Ross Clara
#63. Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
Barbara Kruger
#64. Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.
Anne Cassidy
#65. SEEING BELIEVING what's in front of you is not necessarily the entire story
Susane Colasanti
#66. Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. ...seeing is believing, but remember looks can be deceiving...
J.A. Smith
#68. If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.
Jakob Dylan
#69. Don't lose who you are in the blur of the stars Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing
Jessie J.
#70. We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe
Robert Anton Wilson
