Seeing is believing
I'll believe it when I see it with my own eyes.
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seeing is believing
seeing is believingOnly 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
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seeing is believing
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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, and it is not agreeable to have to tell a person that, in common parlance, he "must not trust his own eyes."
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by H. W. (Henry William) Lee
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
For them, seeing is believing so they think “if none of my guys have died from the virus, it’s not real.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
In other words: Theories are great, but seeing is believing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2019
Our contemporaries are, we perceive, somewhat divided as to the distinctness of the inscription; but we have given our opinion fairly—and, as the proverb runs, "seeing is believing."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 327, August 16, 1828 by Various
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