a picture is worth a thousand words
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Popularized following a 1911 speech given by Arthur Brisbane where he encouraged advertisers "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words."[1][2] By 1915, the phrase in its modern form is attested.[1][2] A number of other phrases expressing the same idea are are attested throughout the 1800s.[2]
Proverb[edit]
a picture is worth a thousand words
- A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.
Translations[edit]
visualisation is better than verbal description
References[edit]
- ↑ 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 [Gregory F. Sullivan] (2022 July 22) “A Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words”, in Quote Investigator, WordPress, retrieved 2024-01-13