Henry Alford Quote

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.


Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 603.


Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail; but in conveying a right impression.