We believe what we see and see what we believe (quotes)

It is conventional to say we believe what we see

  • People believe what they see. Suzanne Bates
  • See it, believe it, achieve it. Lori-Ann Muenzer
  • What the eyes see, the heart must believe. Dai Vernon
  • We believe what we see.’…What do you do when you’re in the dark? Yann Martel
  • And one eye-witness weighs more than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, all the world o’er. Plautus
  • Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown. Philip Roth
  • It’s not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see. Leonardo da Vinci
  • We not only believe what we see, to some extent we see what we believe …The implications of our beliefs are frightening. Richard Gregory
  • 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
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…something that make us susceptible to visual deception…

  • Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man’s vision. Buckminster Fuller
  • The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception. Kathleen Hall Jamieson
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and therefore, something to be weary of

  • Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. Edgar Allan Poe
  • I see it, but I don’t believe it. Richard Dedekind
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Maybe it’s more true to say we tend to see what we believe

  • I will see it when I believe it. Wayne Dyer
  • You’ll see it when you believe it. – Wayne Dyer
  • We cannot see what we don’t believe. Byron Katie
  • We see what we want to believe. Robert McNamara
  • When we believe it, we will see it! Dewitt Jones
  • We see what we believe, not the other way around. Seth
  • Believing is seeing and seeing is believing. Tom Hanks
  • What you see is evidence of what you believe. Wayne Dyer
  • We see what we believe rather than what we see. Alan Watts
  • If you believe it will work out , you’ll see opportunities. Wayne Dyer
  • Beliefs are the determinant of what one experiences. David R. Hawkins
  • You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible. Byron Katie
  • It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe. Marie Lu
  • For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing. George Will
  • They say seeing is believing, but the opposite is true. Believing is seeing. Errol Morris
  • Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Oswald Chambers
  • Believing is seeing. It’s much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing. Terrence E. Deal
  • There are those who say that seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing. Neale Donald Walsch
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Faith is to believe in what you don’t see…

  • Even when I don’t see, I still believe. Jeremy Camp
  • I believe only in what I do not see. Gustave Moreau
  • For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see? Saint Augustine
  • Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose. Bob Proctor
  • Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through. Drake
  • Faith is believing that the things you cannot see are more real than the things you can see. Karen Wheaton
  • Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen. Oswald Sanders
  • To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing. Bob Proctor
  • Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith. Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty. Brene Brown
  • 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
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…but rather to believe in what you feel…

  • Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. Morrie Schwartz
  • To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe. Ed Parker
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…and the reward of faith is to then see what you believe

  • Faith is power to believe and power to see. Prentice Mulford
  • The light of faith makes us see what we believe. Thomas Aquinas
  • Faith is the ability to see things that don’t yet exist. Jim Rohn
  • Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. Corrie Ten Boom
  • Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine
  • Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. John Dryden