21 Metaphors for thinkings

Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.

But at least I know that thinking is not life and now I'm ready to fight.

Intense thinking would not become the Idler.

Legalist thinking remained an important undercurrent for many centuries to come, but application of the equalitarian principle was from now on never seriously considered.

Now God's thinking is creation, his ideas actualities.

They are little capable of impartiality or doubt; their thinking is chiefly a mode of feeling; though very generous in their acts, they are rarely generous in their opinions....

There is much time to think, and thinking is a highly dangerous business.

Whether he was right in so thinking is a question too large to be discussed here, nor can we follow him in the details of his esthetic speculation.

It is only in extreme exigencies that pure thinking by a single person becomes a crime.

Thinking was in him a visible process.

Granted that everything may be a mistake; yet the being mistaken, the thinking is not a mistake.

The worms have made dagger-holes through and through the "inspired leaves" of this fat little volume, till much strong thinking is now very perforated printing.

"Her languishing head was at rest; Its thinkings and achings were o'er; Her quiet, immoveable breast, Was heaved by affliction no more.

"Thinking (not that I am greatly given to it myself) is a much finer thing than feeling; no right-minded person doubts that.

Thinking is an attempt to express infinite thoughts, affections, relations, and events, in finite terms.

Thinking is merely an activity of the mind, as motion is an activity of the body, and not its essential characteristic.

People no longer seriously think that speculative error is bound up with moral iniquity, or that mistaken thinking is either the result or the cause of wicked living.

Thinking had always been hard work for Mamma Goose.

They sat on in silence: Stafford thinking of Ida, Maude looking down at the sleeping dog, and thinking that only a few minutes ago it had been lying in the bosom of the man who sat beside her: the man whom she had backed herself to fool; but for whom a strange sensation of admirationand was it a subtle fear?was stirring within her.

But this thinking is slave-thinking, not master-thinking; it spends itself wholly on devising complicated means to achieve a very simple end.

What must necessarily have impressed every student of Schiller as most characteristic was the fact that thinking was the very substance of his life, in a higher and more significant sense than perhaps has ever been the case with any other person.

21 Metaphors for  thinkings