believing

Not 'Seeing is Believing', you ninny, but 'Believing is Seeing'.For modernart has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.

—Wolfe,Tom (Thomas Kennerley)

The empiricist†thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

—Sandys, George

Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

—Thurber,James Grover

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

—Newman,John Henry

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

—Emerson, RalphWaldo