Alexis Carrel Quotes

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
~ Alexis Carrel


All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
~ Alexis Carrel


All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
~ Alexis Carrel


Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
~ Alexis Carrel


Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
~ Alexis Carrel


Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
~ Alexis Carrel


Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
~ Alexis Carrel


The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
~ Alexis Carrel


The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
~ Alexis Carrel


The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
~ Alexis Carrel


The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.
~ Alexis Carrel


The quality of life is more important than life itself.
~ Alexis Carrel


Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
~ Alexis Carrel


To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
~ Alexis Carrel


Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
~ Alexis Carrel


Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
~ Alexis Carrel


In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
~ Alexis Carrel


Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
~ Alexis Carrel


Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
~ Alexis Carrel


Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
~ Alexis Carrel