18 Quotes by 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 movement.

This preference makes the difference between the judging people, who order their lives, and the perceptive people, who just live them. Both attitudes have merit.

One more preference enters into the identification of type – the choice between the perceptive attitude and the judging attitude as a way of life, a method of dealing with the world around us.

Extraverted thinkers tend to exaggerate for the sake of emphasis, and the victim will be too outraged by the unfair overstatement to pay attention to the part that is true.

The introvert’s main interests are in the inner world of concepts and ideas, while the extravert is more involved with the outer world of people and things.

In order to come to a conclusion, people use the judging attitude and have to shut off perception for the time being.

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.

Those people who prefer intuition are so engrossed in pursuing the possibilities it presents that they seldom look very intently at the actualities. For instance, readers who prefer sensing will tend to confine their attention to what is said here on the page. Readers who prefer intuition are likely to read between and beyond the lines to the possibilities that come to mind.

For example, one very busy NTP is careful tocall home every evening when she is out of town on business. She inquires exhaustively about how things are going, because some problem may have arisen which she can solve. Eventually her ENFP husband changes the subject. “Aren’t you going to say you love us?” It puzzles her that he needs to be told that she loves them. She wouldn’t be worrying about these things if she did not love them! That, of course, is a logical inference.