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English
Etymology
Popularized following a 1911 speech given by Arthur Brisbane where he encouraged advertisers "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." By 1915, the phrase in its modern form is attested. A number of other phrases expressing the same idea are attested throughout the 1800s.
Proverb
a picture is worth a thousand words
- A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.
Translations
visualisation is better than verbal description
- Arabic: صُورَة تُسَاوِي أَلْف كَلِمَة (ṣūra(t) tusāwī ʔalf kalima)
- Catalan: una imatge val més que mil paraules
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 百聞不如一見 / 百闻不如一见 (zh) (bǎi wén bùrú yī jiàn), 一幅畫能畫出千言萬語 / 一幅画能画出千言万语 (yī fú huà néng huà chū qiānyánwànyǔ)
- Danish: et billede siger mere end tusind ord
- Dutch: een afbeelding zegt meer dan duizend woorden
- Finnish: yksi kuva kertoo enemmän kuin tuhat sanaa
- French: une image vaut mille mots (fr)
- Galician: unha imaxe val máis que mil palabras
- Georgian: ასჯერ გაგონილს ერთხელ ნანახი ჯობიაო (asǯer gagonils ertxel nanaxi ǯobiao)
- German: ein Bild sagt mehr als tausend Worte (de)
- Italian: un'immagine vale più di mille parole
- Japanese: 百聞は一見に如かず (ja) (ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず, hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu)
- Korean: 백문불여일견(百聞不如一見) (ko) (baengmun buryeo ilgyeon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: wêneyek bi qasî hezar peyvan e
- Macedonian: една слика вреди илјада збора (edna slika vredi iljada zbora)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: et bilde sier mer enn tusen ord
- Nynorsk: eit bilde seier meir enn tusen ord
- Polish: jeden obraz jest wart więcej niż tysiąc słów
- Portuguese: uma imagem vale mais que mil palavras
- Romanian: o pictură spune mai mult decât o mie de vorbe
- Russian: лу́чше оди́н раз уви́деть, чем сто раз услы́шать (ru) (lúčše odín raz uvídetʹ, čem sto raz uslýšatʹ)
- Slovene: slika pove več kot tisoč besed
- Spanish: una imagen vale más que mil palabras
- Swedish: en bild säger mer än tusen ord
- Turkish: bir resim bin kelimeye bedeldir
- Ukrainian: краще один раз побачити, ніж сто разів почути (krašče odyn raz pobačyty, niž sto raziv počuty)
- Vietnamese: trăm nghe không bằng mắt thấy, trăm nghe không bằng một thấy, mắt thấy tai nghe, sờ sờ (vi), rành rành (vi)
- Zazaki: yo resım hendê hezar çekuyo
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See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, Fred R. Shapiro, editors (2012), “one picture is worth a thousand words”, in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 196
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Garson O’Toole (2022 July 22) “A Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words”, in Quote Investigator, WordPress, retrieved 2024-01-13