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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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"Seeing is believing here," said National Australia Bank's Ray Attrill.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025

"Seeing is believing," Forest City said in an email response.

From Reuters ● Sep. 13, 2023

But as one Northern Ireland MP later said: "Seeing is believing - we have been here before."

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023

Seeing is believing and for Aaron Rodgers, he felt the best way to dispel rumors about his suspected "COVID toe" was to show the proof.

From Fox News ● Nov. 24, 2021

Seeing is believing, it is said: lying is believing, I say.

From Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt

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

“I’ve always been about seeing is believing, and when you can see something, you can be it and achieve it.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2021

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

You may read about it in Hergesheimer's iridescent detail, but seeing is believing.

From Fascinating San Francisco by Andrew Y. Wood