Rainn Wilson Quotes

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

They say that I'm very calculated and not very sensitive - that a regular, average person, there are many things that bother them, and I don't see or feel it.

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

I don't always know how to communicate. I think I get a bit unfiltered and a bit strange to people.

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

Toddlers are couthless. Lord. They are so couth-deficient. They'll tell you, 'Those shoes look like my nightmares' without a second thought because your feelings don't matter to them.

Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

It's very rare that someone who is so good at the language of numbers, is as good at the language of life. They're two very different worlds.

Lack of sensitivity is perhaps basically an unawareness of ourselves.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

I don't feel like embarrassing Kurt by talking about what a psycho hosebeast his wife is, especially when he knows it already.

What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.

There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.

My wife would say my worst habit is that I'm not good at dropping subjects. If something bothers me, I'll bring it up endlessly and relentlessly. I think it's a search for clarity, but she uses different words.

I'm not a person that's easily embarrassed, but I'm embarrassed for other people.

Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned.

I know how easy it is to put your foot in your mouth.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.

One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.