A Quote by Kathleen Hall Jamieson
The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.
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If you asked me what makes the world go round, I would say self-deception. Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I’m not saying that the truth doesn’t matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.
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
Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.
There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.
You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.
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.
Images are not only visual. They're also auditory, they involve sensuous impressions, bundles of information that come to us through our senses, and mainly through seeing and hearing: the audio-visual field.
They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing.
My work is largely concerned
with relations between
seeing and knowing,
seeing and saying,
seeing and believing.
For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
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.
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
You know, there's so many great bands out there, visual bands, that we have to do something that makes us individual, and makes us stick out from everybody else, and something that is even bigger than just the music.
Humans have a strong desire to be part of a group. That desire makes us susceptible to fads, fashions, and idea contagions.
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