Not All "Experts" Are

No statement should be believed [solely] because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper (United States Navy rear admiral and a pioneer of computer programming)

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Laurence J. Peter

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Further reading: Trust Reason

Use Common Sense

Take Charge of Your Life

Authority Does Not Define Morality

Exercise Your Free Will
     

Principles are Sacred

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain

Further reading: Live Your Principles

For Future Generations

The Price of Standing for Something Important

Either Accept It, or Change It
     

Conscience and Principles

In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain

Further reading: For Future Generations

Live Your Principles

Either Accept It, or Change It

The Price of Standing for Something Important
    

Right Conduct

Laws control the lesser man.
Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Mark Twain

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
- Abraham Lincoln

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

Further reading: Keep the Golden Rule

The Center of Your Being

Your Choices Determine Everything

Your Most Important Values
   

Experts and Authorities

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
- Laurence J. Peter

Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Further reading: Trust Reason

Take Charge of Your Life

Common Sense

Exercising Your Free Will

Valley of Death

Honor

Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws control the lesser man.
Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Mark Twain

All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

You will never do anything in this world without courage.
It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
- Aristotle 

To live is to choose.
But to choose well, you must know who you are
and what you stand for, where you want to go
and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein

It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)

Further reading:  What is Honor? Is there a place for Honor today?

The Eight Points of Simply An Inspired Life

Honor

Conscience

The Test

Dignity

Mark Twain: Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.
- Mark Twain
Whose laws have priority in your life?

Further reading: Mark Twain quotes

This above all, to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare

Albert Camus: Life is a sum of all your choices.