Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Levi

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American public servant Edward Levi.

Last updated on November 23, 2024.

Edward Hirsch Levi was an American law professor, academic leader, and government lawyer. He served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1950 to 1962, president of the University of Chicago from 1968 to 1975, and then as United States Attorney General in the Ford Administration. Levi is regularly cited as the "model of a modern attorney general", the "greatest lawyer of his time", and is credited with restoring order after Watergate. He is considered, along with Yale's Whitney Griswold, the greatest of postwar American university presidents.

American - Public Servant | June 26, 1911 - March 7, 2000

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The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Edward Levi

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

Edward Levi

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

Edward Levi

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

Edward Levi

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Edward Levi

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Edward Levi

Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

Edward Levi