A picture is worth a thousand words

Meaning: Visual information communicates more effectively than text.

Origin: American English, first used in advertising in the 1920s.

Translations

• French: Une image vaut mille mots (literally: An image is worth a thousand words)
• Spanish: Una imagen vale más que mil palabras (literally: An image is worth more than a thousand words)
• Japanese: 百聞は一見に如かず (Hyakubun wa ikken ni shikazu) (literally: Hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once)

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• Silence speaks volumes — What is not said can be more meaningful than what is.

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