Personality Adjustment for Conversation : Page 166

But tactlessness is equally painful, whether unintentional or malicious. In this respect, Shaw's contention, that a fool is as bad as a sinner, holds. And it always comes from not regarding the other person's feelings and points of view. As it is, there are very few people who are never guilty of tactlessness. Sometimes surely, when facts have been withheld from us, one cannot be blamed for it. Once a couple maneuvered me into discussing the evils of divorce. A week later I learned from others that each had been previously divorced. I shuddered at the many things I had said — things I should have said differently had I known this fact.