Facts and details are very important! However, if you live by the wrong principles or by no principles or you waver on critical principles, then facts and details do not matter much anymore!
“The knowledge of certain principles easily compensates the lack of knowledge of certain facts.”
"la connaissance de certains principes supplée facilement à la connoissance de certains faits.”"
Claude Adrien Helvétius. De l’esprit. 1759 (Source)
Wikipedia does not even have a separate entry for this book that was once condemned! You can actually not find any good summary on the Internet using Google search.
C'est dommage! Very regrettable!
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