think too little of

Example Sentences

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I don’t want this to poison our relationship, but I also worry that if I can have these thoughts about someone I purportedly love, maybe I think too little of him to be with him?

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2021

We cannot think too much of it as the instrument of our reconciliation and forgiveness, but we may, and too often do, think too little of it as the pattern of our lives.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander

Sir Conan Doyle expressed this sentiment most delightfully in these words: The dead are such good company that one may come to think too little of the living.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

One reason why admonitions are so little attended to, is, that mentors think too little of the dispositions of those they reprove, and so seek to work a miracle, not to perform a cure.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by West, Jane

Once I told you that you were one of those men who think too little of themselves and sacrifice themselves for others.

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)