believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see

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believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see a warning against over-reliance on one's own experience recorded from the mid 19th century; a related Middle English saying warns that you should not believe everything that is said or that you hear, and a letter of the late 18th century has, ‘You must not take everything to be true that is told to you.’

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