When I was a naive undergraduate, I laboured under a severe misapprehension. I thought that people believed things because they had heard the evidence and believed those things to be true. If somebody believed something that was (in my opinion) wrong, it must have been because they had bad information or had heard a mistaken argument. Therefore, all I had to do was simply furnish them with better information and a logical argument and we’d agree on the facts.

Needless to say, I had a lot of long and pointless conversations back then.
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I’ve spent the last 3 months in China, and haven’t had enough – I plan to go back. It’s an open question whether I’ll find the time, but my Chinese ability is nowhere near where I want it to be. My Chinese adventures are chronicled on my China blog.

Via http://ladyburp.blogspot.com/