Understanding a person is a hard task, especially if that person has the rarest personality type on planet earth (~1% of population). Now imagine how difficult and rare it is for that person to feel to be understood by others. Yes! I’m talking about the INFJs.
In this blog I’ve collected a bunch of quotes, which I personally feel very much connected to; and might stand as a portrayal of the complex cognitive functions of an INFJ mind; at least partially. Even if you are an INFJ or not, even if you don’t acknowledge MBTI as a tool to scratch the personalities, you are welcome anyways to read this collection of quotes. INFJ’s are termed and classified as idealists, advocates, counselors, visionaries, empaths etc etc. I write this blog with a little hope that, some INFJ readers out there will be able to resemble these feelings, expressed through these quotes to some extent. Enjoy reading!
- On the introverted intuitive side of INFJs
I believe in intuitions and inspirations… I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.
Intuition does not come to an unprepared mind.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
Carl Jung
- On the imaginative side of INFJ’s
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.
… you see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not’?
George Bernard Shaw
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
The imagination is precious. Don’t lose it. Don’t lose the child in you.
Marilyn Manson
- On the creative side of INFJ’s
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.
Steve Jobs
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo picasso
The idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss.
J. K. Rowling
- On INFJ’s natural tendency in understanding others and empathy
That meditating on things human, all too human (or as the learned phrase goes, ‘psychological observation’) is one of the means by which man can ease life’s burden; that by exercising this art, one can secure presence of mind in difficult situations and entertainment amid boring surroundings…
Friedrich Nietzsche
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell
- On INFJ’s feelings for the humanity
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty
Mahatma Gandhi
People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‘We want peace, we want stability,’ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.
Nelson Mandela
People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
- On the visionary, leadership side of INFJs
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes. I believe also that he will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful.
One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
PLATO
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
Niccolo Machiavelli
- On INFJ’s sheer determination, ambition and living life on a mission
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision and what he has done to equip himself and how well he has performed along the line of its development.
Joseph M Dodge
We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do.
Martha Grimes
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma gandhi
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- On the loving nature of INFJ
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
RUMI
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you and of all acts for which you must atone.
Dante Alighieri
Saikat Chatterjee 