a picture is worth a thousand words

English

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Etymology

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 attested throughout the 1800s.[2]

Proverb

a picture is worth a thousand words

  1. A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.

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References

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Garson O’Toole [Gregory F. Sullivan] (22 July 2022) “A Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words”, in Quote Investigator, WordPress, retrieved 13 January 2024
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