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Quotes by Alexis Carrel

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
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
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
– 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 mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
– Alexis Carrel
There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
– Alexis Carrel
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
– Alexis Carrel
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
– 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
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
– 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 love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
– 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
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
– Alexis Carrel
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
– Alexis Carrel