24 Metaphors for think

My only thought in this life is the happiness of my child.

HUMILITY One of the earliest effects of selfless thought is the exorcism of all arrogance.

From being lightning-swift, thought became a laborious, drugged process; her excited mind had harboured throngs of vivid visions; she had known a period of over-active mental stimulation; she had seen, as in the actual flesh, Mark King ploughing through the snow, going over ridges, pushing on and on and on.

His one thought in life is money and the increase of his income, which, with the yearly sum allowed him by the British Government, may be put down at considerably over £30,000 per annum.

Written thought is to many of them an impossible conception.

But the one thought which is ever constant with him, and is peculiarly helpful to the practical man, is his recognition of the value of limitation in all our energies, and the stress he lays on the fact that only by virtue of this limitation can we grow.

Thinking is a form of vital growth.

Verily, on this view, "Thinking is but an idle waste of thought, And nought is everything, and everything is nought.

[Byron]; those that think must govern those that toil [Goldsmith]; thought is parent of the deed

Thinking is the power to take up life where the race has left off attainment, and to lead the race one step farther on, by a new concept or idea.

Hours of the extremest bodily and mental exhaustion, when every nerve is quivering as if laid bare, and the surface of the brain burning and whirling to agony, with the reins of control let loose on every rebellious and every senseless thought, are not the times most likely to be chosen for the purest communion with God.

[Huxley]; thought is the soul of act [R. Browning]; vivre-ce nest pas respirer

[Huxley]; thought is the soul of act [R. Browning]; vivre-ce nest pas respirer

Could I recall one!But that thought is vain, Availeth not Persuasion's sweetest tone

(3) All thought (as has been shown by Hamilton in his essay "On the Philosophy of the Unconditioned," and by his follower Mansel) is the establishment of relations, every thought involving relation, difference, and (as Spencer adds) likeness.

Faith prescribes the objects and the limitations of knowledge; everything is referred to the hereafter, thought becomes prayer.

(3) All thought (as has been shown by Hamilton in his essay "On the Philosophy of the Unconditioned," and by his follower Mansel) is the establishment of relations, every thought involving relation, difference, and (as Spencer adds) likeness.

Thinking is a bad thing, mostly, don't you agree, Ronicky?" "It sure is," replied Ronicky Doone instantly.

here was no work of Helen'sno thought, no willHelen would have died to save thee this" "So, Fidelis, do I scorn all women that do live upon this earth henceforthbut, above all, Helen the Beautiful!

One thought in every developed activity-series is a desire or thought of purpose, and all the other thoughts acquire a feeling tone from their relation of harmony or oppugnancy to this.

Priestley, on the contrary, boldly avows the materialistic and deterministic consequences of his position, holds that psychical phenomena are not merely accompanied by material motions but consist in them (thought is a function of the brain), and makes psychology, as the physics of the nerves, a part of physiology.

" The chief thought revolving in my mind during the years of 1894 and 1895 had been "The Woman's Bible."

but Not seldom In our happy hours of ease, When thought is still, the sight of some fair form, Or mournful fall of music breathing low, Will stir strange fancies, thrilling all the soul With a mysterious sadness, and a sense Of vague yet earnest longing.

One think was ruther stiddier 'n the rest, an' that was that I liked Bewlah more 'n I knew.

24 Metaphors for  think