A Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seeing is not always believing.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Always Believing Seeing

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
American - Leader
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Paul Caponigro

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

Philip Roth

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

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

George MacDonald

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.