Psychology Quote by Isabel Briggs Myers

“Introversion—along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness—is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living under the…

— Susan Cain

A widely held, but rarely articulated, belief in our society is that the ideal self is bold, alpha, gregarious. Introversion is viewed somewhere between…

— Susan Cain

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

— Isabel Briggs Myers

The bias against introversion leads to a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness.

— Susan Cain

“Finally, it has been shown that the tendency for people to think of themselves as above average is reduced—even for ambiguous traits—when people are…

— Thomas Gilovich

“According to Free Trait Theory, we are born and culturally endowed with certain personality traits—introversion, for example—but we can and do act out of…

— Susan Cain

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

— Susan Cain

“Introverts living under the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of…

— Susan Cain

“Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of…

— Susan Cain

Some introverts are actually brilliant extraverts. They're just afraid of judgement.

— Modestas Rinkevicius

“Good type development thus demands that the auxiliary supplement the dominant process in two respects. It must supply a useful degree of balance not…

— Isabel Briggs Myers

“Our challenge as introverts is to adopt the attitude, based on the introversion assumption, that your need to retreat requires no explanation—it is self-evident.”

— Laurie Helgoe