Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

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

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat's off to them.

And seek for truth in the groves of Academy

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

We have therefore decided that in the most pleasant city of Naples there should be teaching of the arts and of all disciplines, so that those who are starved for knowledge will find it in our own kingdom, and will not be forced, in their search for knowledge, to become pilgrims and to beg in foreign lands