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• Seeing is believing
  Seeing is believing

  I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.
• seeing is believing
  seeing is believing

  Only physical or concrete evidence is convincing, as in She wrote us that she's lost twenty pounds, but seeing is believing. This idiom was first recorded in this form in 1639.

Seeing is believing

Cultural  

1. I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.

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seeing is believing Idioms  

1. Only physical or concrete evidence is convincing, as in She wrote us that she's lost twenty pounds, but seeing is believing. This idiom was first recorded in this form in 1639.

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Example Sentences

They say seeing is believing, and people believe that this is a rapidly growing trend because they see it on television so often.

From Slate • May 15, 2023

In the church of science, data may be sacrosanct, but images are the true disciples, because seeing is believing.

From Scientific American • Nov. 16, 2022

In other words: Theories are great, but seeing is believing.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2019

In Landeskog’s view, seeing is believing in MacKinnon’s skills.

From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2018

He was one of the men to whom seeing is believing, and so he speaks.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Maclaren, Alexander