Isabel Briggs Myers Quotes

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

Isabel Briggs Myers
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
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
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
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
In teaching, the other main problem related to type is the students' interest. Intuitives and sensing types differ greatly in what they find interesting in any subject even if they like, that is, are interested in, the same subjects. Intuitives like the principle, the theory, the why. Sensing types like the practical application, the what and the how.

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 INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

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

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

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 the basic concept of intelligence.

Isabel Briggs Myers