A picture is worth a thousand words

Posted by ESC January 07, 2003In reply to A picture paints a thousand words posted by James Briggs on January 07, 2003

hi,
I am looking for the meaning and eplaination about the following quote:
A picture paints a thousand words
Bye

Simply put, it means that a picture will be far more descriptive of something than words can ever be, or, to put it another way, no matter how hard you try, you can't beat a visual presentation.

Having sat through far too many Powerpoint-rich presentations from Microsoft worker ants in my time, I have to entirely disagree. The acolytes of Saint Bill of Seattle manage effortlessly to be meaningless, no matter which medium they choose to present in.

And allegedly first made by Confucius, I believe.

PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, A -- One reference says "a picture is worth a thousand words" is ".a Chinese proverb long ago. The Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote (in 'Fathers and Sons' in 1862): 'A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.'" From The Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).