Yes, this sentence is a famous saying.

Pronunciation ěr tīng wéi xū, yǎn jiàn wéi shí

Explanation: Don’t believe in rumors, what you see is the truth. The rumors you hear are unreliable, only seeing them with your own eyes is true. It is said that what you see with your own eyes is more true and reliable than what you hear.

Source: "Shuoyuan·Zhengli" written by Liu Xiang of the Han Dynasty: "What you hear with your ears is not as good as seeing it; what you see with your eyes is not as good as practicing it with your feet." ”

“Hearing is false, seeing is true”, it means that listening to what others say and seeing yourself are different. What you see can be the real situation, but listening to what others say is often false. Don’t believe hearsay until you see it with your own eyes. But does seeing necessarily mean believing? Not necessarily. Because things can be divided into truth and illusion. If the eyes see illusion and mistake the illusion for the truth, they will mistake the virtual for the real.

(1) Perceptual knowledge is people’s understanding of things and phenomena formed through contact with objective things through their sense organs in practice. Perceptual knowledge is the foundation and necessary stage of rational knowledge, but a large number of things recognized by perceptual knowledge are messy, one-sided, and even false. Therefore, what the sense organs feel and see are not necessarily true. At the same time, phenomena have truth and illusion, and illusion distorts and conceals the essence in a negative way. It is impossible to correctly understand things simply by relying on perceptual knowledge or being confused by illusions. So "seeing may not necessarily be true"

(2) There are two types of people's cognitive activities. Among them, learning cognitive activities are learning things summarized by others. Although they are heard, they may also be true. . Therefore, "hearing with the ears may not be illusory"

(3) A detailed analysis should be made on seeing and hearing, reality and emptiness. What the eyes see may be reality, or it may not be reality; what the ears hear may be reality, or it may be reality. May be true. It cannot be said in a general way: "Seeing is believing, hearing is believing".

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