The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died.
Who you gonna believe-me or your lying eyes?
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o'er.
The events of the time may be transmitted to posterity; but the agitation of the public mind can never be fully comprehended but by those who were witnesses of it
Ramsay was the first major American historian of the American Revolution.
I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory .
What we are fed through the media I do not accept, unless you see it with your own eyes you cant trust anything.
Believe in your own eyes and you'll get into a lot of trouble, hot water, a mess.
Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.
Standing up here on the hill away from all humans - seeing these Wonders taking place before one's eyes - so silently... watching the silence of Nature. No school - no church - is as good a teacher as the eye understandingly seeing what's before it. I believe this more firmly than ever.
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.
A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.