Isabel Briggs Myers

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

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

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“they [thinkers] can remember how feeling types respond to sympathy and appreciation; a little of either will greatly tone down a necessary…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“The second follow-up, which examined changes in specialty, showed how often doctors of each type changed to a more typical specialty (to…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“Thinking or feeling judgment is vitally necessary, and introverted intuitives must develop it for themselves, because their utter conviction of their intuition’s…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“It follows that these people [INTJs] cannot be successfully coerced. They will not even be told anything without their permission, but they…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“THE CONDUCT OF extraverts is based on the outer situation. If they are thinkers, they tend to criticize or analyze or organize…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“the thinker’s natural process is inappropriate when used in personal relations with feeling types, because it includes a readiness to criticize. Criticism…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“The satisfaction earned by the striving can be whatever furnishes the strongest incentive to the child, for example, extra pleasures or possessions…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“If you are the sensing type, the intuitive’s words may seem to ignore or even contradict facts you know to be true,…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

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

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“The sensing types are not in such close communication with their unconscious. They do not trust an answer that suddenly appears. They…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

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

— Isabel Briggs Myers

Introverted feeling types have a wealth of warmth and enthusiasm, but they may not show it until they know someone well. They…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“Those mitigating circumstances could just as well be mentioned if the thinker thought it worth the trouble. From the standpoint of human…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“The JP preference does show itself in simple and accessible reactions. It serves admirably as the fourth dichotomy if one detail is…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“The common factor in all these manifestations of intuition is a sort of ski jump—a soaring take-off from the known and established,…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“The sensing person has faith in the actual, the intuitive in the possible. As each concentrates accordingly, they seldom look at anything…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

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

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“Finally, although extraverts certainly have more worldly wisdom and a better sense of expediency, introverts have a corresponding advantage in unworldly wisdom.…

— Isabel Briggs Myers