to make a judgment about something without talking about it with anyone else.
I thought to myself, who knows, maybe he is right.
Related vocabulary: say something to yourself
(redirected from think to yourself)
think to
1. To have an inner monologue; to make a statement to oneself in one's mind, without saying it out loud. I had a moment where I thought to myself, "Why am I even working here?"I'm sure they don't think to themselves, "What if we're the bad guys?" They just don't care.
2. To have the idea to do something. I'm sorry, I didn't think to run the dishwasher before we left.