seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times (idiom); seeing for oneself is better than hearing from many others
seeing is believing
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
語句
聽人講一百次都及唔上自己親眼睇一次咁真實、咁深刻、咁直接 an expression used when someone sees something special for the very first time; literally, "hearing about something a hundred times is not as good as seeing it once"
Definitions (Wiktionary)
proverb
seeing is believing
proverb
a picture is worth a thousand words
Definitions (Kaifangcidian)
(沒有對應漢語詞彙)
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
Mandarin
百闻不如一见。
百聞不如一見。
bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn 。
A picture is worth a thousand words.
An image is worth a thousand words.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
百闻不如一见
百聞不如一見
bǎi wén bù rú yī jiàn
seeing is believing (literally, “hearing something one hundred times is not as good as seeing it once”)