Kathleen Hall Jamieson Quotes

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

Never believe your eyes

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Seeing is not always believing.

It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

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

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder time than you should.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

Not seeing is half-believing.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.

The first man to see an illusion by which men have flourished for centuries surely stands in a lonely place.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done?

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

I don't want them to believe me, I just want them to think.

Nothing is as deceptive as a photograph.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.