A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

seed see also the BLOOD of the martyrs is the seed of the Church; PARSLEY seedgoes nine times to the Devil.
seeding see ONE year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding.
SEEING is believing

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  1609 S. HARWARD MS (Trinity College, Cambridge) 85 Seeing is leeving. 1639 J. CLARKE Par&miologia Anglo-Latina 90 Seeing is beleeving. 1712 J. ARBUTHNOT Lewis Baboon iv. There’s nothing like Matter of Fact; Seeing is Believing. 1848 J. C. & A. W. HARE Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 2nd Ser. 497 Seeing is believing, says the proverb. .. Though, of all our senses, the eyes are the most easily deceived, we believe them in preference to any other evidence. 2001 Washington Times 14 Dec. A4 Seeing, as the old saw goes, is believing, and in the post-literate age the visual is more persuasive than it used to be. "trust and scepticism
  

SEEK and ye shall find
Cf. SOPHOCLES Oedipus Tyrannus 1. 110-11 n- A A what is
sougt is found;what is neglected evades us. A more direct source is MATTHEW vii. 7 (AV) Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and ye shall find.

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  1530 in J. Palsgrave L^claircissement de la Langue Francaise A5 He that wyll seke may fynde And in a brefe tyme attayne tohis utterest desire. c 1538 J. BALE King Johan (1931) 1. 192 Serche and ye shall fynd, in every congregacyn that long [belongs] to the pope. 1783 J. JAY Letter 14 Nov. (1891) III. 95 ‘Seek and you shall find’ does not, it seems, always extend to that [health] of the body. 1980 R. COLLINS Case of Philosopher’s Ring xiii. There is danger in the saying, ‘Seek and ye shall find’. ■ diligence; wanting and having
  

seem see BE what you would seem to be.
seen see CHILDREN should be seen and not heard.