A Quote by George MacDonald

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

George MacDonald

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Believing Only Seeing

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George MacDonald
Scottish - Writer
December 10, 1824 - September 18, 1905

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

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Jasper Johns

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

Terrence E. Deal

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Denis Waitley

There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.

Neale Donald Walsch

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

They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.

Errol Morris

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

George Will

Or, to express this in another way, suggested to me by Professor Suzuki, in connection with seeing into our own nature, poetry is the something that we see, but the seeing and the something are one; without the seeing there is no something, no something, no seeing. There is neither discovery nor creation: only the perfect, indivisible experience.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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

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

Seeing into one's self-nature is seeing into nothingness. Seeing into nothingness is true seeing & eternal seeing

Shenhui

My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or a laboratory subject, you aren't seeing the rabbit anymore. You are seeing only yourself and the schemes and appetites we bring to the world-seeing, come to think of it, like an animal instead of as a moral being with moral vision.

Matthew Scully

How do we know what we know? Is seeing believing? Is believing seeing?

John Paul Caponigro

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?