according to one's lights

English

Synonym of by one's lights.
- 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 164:
  "Well, there's her statement of her case, and according to her lights, it's a just one. She's got a slum-bred mind."
- 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
  She tried to bring them up according to her lights, and Cal’s lights are pretty good - and another thing, the children love her.