Dicho español · Spanish proverb
«Una imagen vale más que mil palabras.»
Word for word
An image is worth more than a thousand words.
What it really means
The closest English equivalent: A picture is worth a thousand words.
Used when a visual explains something better than a long description could. Common in presentations, journalism, and everyday conversation about photos or diagrams.
Hear it in a sentence
No hace falta que expliques el gráfico; una imagen vale más que mil palabras.
You don't need to explain the chart; a picture is worth a thousand words.
More Spanish sayings
- Cobra buena fama y échate a dormir. — Build a good name and it will work for you.
- Más vale tarde que nunca. — Better late than never.
- El amor es ciego. — Love is blind.
- Una mentira repetida mil veces se convierte en verdad. — A lie repeated a thousand times becomes truth.
- El amor de lejos, amor de pendejos. — Long-distance love rarely works.
Why learn dichos?
Proverbs like this one are everywhere in spoken Spanish — dropped mid-conversation, usually just the first half, with the rest left for you to complete. Recognizing them is one of the fastest ways to sound less like a textbook and follow real speech. Every Lingocito edition signs off with the dicho del día, so you meet one a day next to news written at your level.