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백문이_불여일견

백문불여일견

Korean

Proverb

백문불여일견 (baengmunburyeoilgyeon) (hanja 百聞不如一見)

  1. seeing is believing (maybe worth the empiricist and positivist classic dictum).
    • 漢書 卷六十九 趙充國辛慶忌傳
      時,充國年七十餘,上老之,使御史大夫丙吉問誰可將者,充國對曰:「亡逾於老臣者矣。」上遣問焉,曰:「將軍度羌虜何如,當用幾人?」充國曰:「百聞不如一見。兵難逾度,臣願馳至金城,圖上方略。然羌戎小夷,逆天背畔,滅亡不久,願陛下以屬老臣,勿以為憂。」上笑曰:「諾。」

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