百闻不如一见
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seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom)
seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others
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Proverb谚语諺語 · In everyday use
- Literally
- hearing a hundred times is not as good as seeing once
- Meaning
- Seeing something yourself beats hearing about it. Equivalent to 'seeing is believing'.
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