Given a thimbleful of facts
we rush to make generalizations
as large as a tub.
Gordon W. Allport
20th-Century U.S. Psychologist and Educator
THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF NATURE
People believe that nature is unconscious, but they are mistaken. Poor people!
“CHILDREN OF THE EARTH! Listen to your instructors, the Children of…
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Its so true....
...we habitually construct all sorts of scenarios and generalisations in our heads about people and how people looked that morning or their facial expression or that they did or did not say something ...and we believe we know now and we begin to construct something about that person and peddle our opinion it as if it was fact...