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Idiom

believing is seeing

Meaning

One needs to believe something in order to know or understand it.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“You must have faith because believing is seeing.”

“She told her skeptical friend that believing is seeing when it comes to finding true happiness.”

“The philosopher argued that objective reality remains hidden to those who doubt, for in matters of the spirit, believing is seeing.”

Examples

simple

“You must have faith because believing is seeing.”

contextual

“She told her skeptical friend that believing is seeing when it comes to finding true happiness.”

complex

“The philosopher argued that objective reality remains hidden to those who doubt, for in matters of the spirit, believing is seeing.”

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