Isabel Briggs Myers Quotes

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it.

The best-adjusted people are the ‘psychologically patriotic,’ who are glad to be what they are.

What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.

You psychologists focus on what is wrong with people; I want to focus on what is right and what could be right.

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They wear their warm side inside, like a fur-lined coat.

Although intelligence tests are usually speed tests for the sake of convenience, it is debatable whether speed has any rightful place in the basic concept of intelligence.

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

The visions of the INFJs tend to concern human welfare, and their contributions are likely to be made independent of a mass movement.

ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics.