Even though stars look like 'dots' in the sky, they are BIG - very big. Each star is like our sun (apparently our sun is a dwarf sized star if I am not wrong).
Now if you didn't know this and thought the stars you see at night are small - it's fine. I don't blame you. I'll never say how silly/stupid. But if you understand distance and light and everything else, and still believe the stars you see are small, then you are just foolish.
Stars also don't twinkle, they shine. What makes them twinkle is that their light gets refracted. An average person not being taught this, has full right to believe that star twinkle but those who understand about 'light moving through our atmosphere' are making a mistake if they accept/believe stars twinkle (I am saying believe and not 'say' because in general talk we all say stars twinkle and that is a matter of habit more than anything else)
Perception is important, but being blinded even when you know better is just wrong.
[Not sure if the words I have used are correct but I think the idea is clear enough]
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You are what you perceive and you read what you perceive. [If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is infinite - William Blake ]
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