耳闻不如眼见
      Explanation: Hear than to see the true and reliable. Reliable than the hearsay analogy to feel
      Usage: As object, attribute, clause; metaphor important practical experience
      Source: "Old Tang Xin for No Biography": "I think that the ancient taste of their own spending from time to time, Jazz tour properly, ruins a family who perished, I would rather every body, heard not as good as seeing."
      Examples: Ming Wu Cheng-en, "Journey to the West" 48 back: "I said rumor, ~. I back the horse, and requested the teacher to see his father."
  • Thesaurus:  seeing for oneself is better than hearing from others, I'll believe that when I see it., Seeing is believing., Seeing, not hearing