A Quote by Gertrude Stein

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

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Gertrude Stein
American - Novelist
February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946

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

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

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

Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.

John Trudell

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

Errol Morris

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

Jasper Johns

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

George Will

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

Bodhidharma

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing, and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

Bodhidharma

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.