Seeing Is Believing Quotes

• Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

  "Strive to Love, Anticipate with Hope, Believe in Faith". Book by Catherine Basten, 2004.

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

  Philip Roth

  Believe, Knowledge, Knowing

  Philip Roth (2013). “Zuckerman Unbound”, p.165, Macmillan

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• 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

  God, Faith, Confidence

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.137, Discovery House

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• Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Believe, Men, Blind Spots

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  I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Faith, God, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson

  Believe, Deception, Assumption

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.46, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Confidence, Believe, Conversations With God

  Neale Donald Walsch (2007). “Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Believe, Facts, Seeing

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• Believing is seeing and seeing is believing.

  Tom Hanks

  Believe, Seeing

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

  Errol Morris

  Believe, Opposites, Seeing

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• For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

  Saint Augustine

  Inspirational, Faith, Religious

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• And one eye-witness weighs
  More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing,
  All the world o'er.

  Plautus

  Believe, Eye, World

  "Comedies of Plautus".

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• If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

  Amy Grant

  Believe, Learning, Night

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2014

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• Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Monsters, Alive

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: plus Free Audiobook”, p.58, Wizio Publishing

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• Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Money, Believe, Mean

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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

  Terrence E. Deal

  Believe, Notion, Seeing

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

  George Will

  Believe, Politics, Seeing

  "Little Rhetoric Riding Hood". www.jewishworldreview.com. August 24, 2008.

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• Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

  Bill W.

  Believe, Humor, Alcohol

  Bill W. (2013). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.148, Courier Corporation

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