Caveat: 귀소문 말고 눈소문 하라

This is an aphorism from my book of aphorisms.

귀소문 말고 눈소문 하라
gwi.so.mun mal.go nun.so.mun ha.ra
 ear-report refrain-CONJ eye-report do-COMMAND
Refrain from [believing] the report of the ears, but rather [believe] the report of the eyes.

“Seeing is believing,” of course. Then again, as a fan of (or, anyway, someone fascinated by) apophenia, sometimes we see things that are not there, and we choose to believe them, because our impulse to believe seems to epistemologically precede our sensory capacity.
[daily log: walking, 6 km]

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