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

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

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

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.

the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more vocal than introverts; they are more numerous, apparently in the ratio of three to one; and they are accessible and understandable, whereas the introverts are not readily understandable, even to each other, and are likely to be thoroughly incomprehensible to the extraverts.

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

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.