Isabel Myers Briggs Quotes

#1. By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#2. The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day - mateless and abandoned.

Dia Reeves

#3. Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Frederick William Faber

#4. As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Edward Thomson

#5. The best-adjusted people are the
'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#6. We cannot safely assume that other people's minds work on the same principles as our own. All too often, others with whom we come in contact do not reason as we reason, or do not value the things we value, or are not interested in what interests us.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#7. The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Eric Balfour

#8. It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn't get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. To me, true love is about finding someone who not only sees and accepts your demons but also is willing to step up and fight them when you stumble.

A.C. Gaughen

#10. So many likes and retweets for having the "GUTS"
to say what every-
one thinks

ON
THE
FUCKING
INTER-
NET

(but never in the street).

Andy Carrington

#11. They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no more interest. Thus, they need successive new assignments, with bigger and better problems, to stretch their powers.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#12. 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.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#13. It came to be the natural rule of life with him, that no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. For many Extraverts, "hell at a party" is "not being able to get in." Many introverts see it as "being there.

Isabel Briggs Myers

#15. 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

Isabel Briggs Myers

#16. A life lived alone simply feels long and boring. But a life shared with someone you love reaches the place of parting in no time at all.

Kyoichi Katayama

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

Isabel Briggs Myers

#18. 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.

Isabel Briggs Myers

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

Isabel Briggs Myers

#20. 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.

Isabel Briggs Myers

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

Isabel Briggs Myers

#22. Famous INFPs include Isabel Myers (creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator), St. John the disciple, Carl Rogers, Princess Diana, George Orwell, Audrey Hepburn, Fred Rogers, A.A. Milne, Helen Keller, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Julia Roberts, and William Shakespeare.

Molly Owens

#23. When a person in your life continuously displays to you they do not care, there comes a point where you may want to start believing them.

Mark W. Boyer

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

Isabel Briggs Myers

#25. 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