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SEEING is believing
1609MS
(Trinity College, Cambridge) 85
Seeing is leeving.
1639
Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina
90
Seeing is beleeving.
1712
Lewis Baboon
iv.
There's nothing like Matter of Fact; Seeing is Believing.
1848
Guesses at Truth
(ed. 2) 2nd Ser. 497
Seeing is believing, says the proverb … Though, of all our senses, the eyes are the most easily deceived, we believe them in preference to any other evidence.
1975
Our Man in Camelot
v.
‘Show him the stuff … Let him make his own mind up.’ ‘Okay. Maybe you're right at that. Seeing is believing, I guess.’
trust and scepticismSEEK and ye shall find
Cf. SOPHOCLES
Oedipus Tyrannus
l. 110
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