Seeing & Believing

Seeing is not believing.

Believing is not seeing.

Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about reality.

In contrast, seeing is direct experience.

So really, they are opposites. 

Next time, you hear someone use the phrase seeing is believing, quietly inform them otherwise (and inwardly smirk at their naivete). 

Pointing to the moon

If you point out the moon to a cat, she probably won't look at the sky, she'll come up and sniff your finger, directing focus not on the pointing finger but on the action itself.