eye of the mind
Example Sentences
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Imagery makes palpable to the bodily eye the abstract thought seen only by the eye of the mind; and all orators aim at giving vividness to their thinking by thus making their thoughts visible.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Daniel Webster
All human beings, not utterly savage, long for some information about past times, and are delighted by narratives which present pictures to the eye of the mind.
From Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Open the eye of the mind in the light of faith, to know, to love, to follow that truth which you shall know through the Blood of the humble and loving Lamb.
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Saint of Siena Catherine
As you must not stop your ears, or close your bodily eyes, so you must not shut the eye of the mind, or harden your heart.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
As the perception of light to the eye of the body, so is the perception of truth to the eye of the mind.
From The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler
