Quotes by Alexis Carrel

“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality”

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

“A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”

“Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive”

“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.”

“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.”

“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 theyre an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.”

“Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia”

“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.”

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of ones day and every night to examine the results obtained.

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.

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.

Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.

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

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

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